[Using Sakai] Anyone have experienc with large (5000+) Project Sites

[Adam Marshall]

from our FAQ: http://wiki.oucs.ox.ac.uk/weblearn/SakaiAdministratorFaq

Is there a limit to the number of site participants?
A: In theory there is a limit. Some tools start to work slowly with a large number of users. We did an experiment and added 6,500 users to site which contained Wiki, Announcements, Mailtool, Resources, Web Content and Home, and everything seemed to work just fine. If you do have a large number of participants, then it is worth checking the performance before getting students to use it!
The University of Cape Town have a site with 30,000 users and confirm that the following tools are fine: Announcements, Resources, Chat, Polls, Forums, Evaluation System, Site Info (though slow).
Texas State have a site with 1,300 users and confirm that in addition to the above they have no problems with Forums. Tests and Quizzes (which we don't offer here) does not work very well.
At Unisa (University of South Africa) there are sites with over 1000 members, they report problems with the following tools:

 *   Blogger - slow for large classes; get problems/bugs - this tool has been withdrawn now
 *   Dropbox - finding a specific box without a search on the page or re-ordering option
 *   Sign up - lecturers' view is slow with the view of participants
 *   Site Info - default view extract all participants; slow for adding new participants on large sites
 *   Sitestats - resources view; reports for many events


From: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Josh Baron
Sent: 29 September 2010 22:42
To: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: [Using Sakai] Anyone have experienc with large (5000+) Project Sites

We're considering creating a Project Site as part of a strategic planning process that could have between 5000 - 8000 users in that one site.  We'd likely only have 500-800 fairly active users but most would be posting a last something to the site at some point.

I'm wondering if anyone has had experience with Project Sites that are this big?  Did you encounter any performance issues? Other problems?

Thanks, Josh
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Joshua Baron
Senior Academic Technology Officer
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York  12601
(845) 575-3623 (work)
Twitter: JoshBaron
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