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[Anirudh Zala]

On Friday 18 Jan 2008 23:46:28 Ajai Khattri wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Anirudh Zala wrote:
> > When you move from medium to large scale projects, Symfony starts getting
> > restricted. For example there is no native support to handle replication
> > of database hence you left stumped that what to do.
> >
> > Fortunately there is plugin to do so. But it has also it's limitations.
> > It supports only 1 master and many slave type of replication. Hence if
> > you need to handle multiple masters and slaves then you have no other way
> > except modifying that plugin.
>
> Define "large".

Many large scale projects have high traffic of users hence you require to use 
Replication or Clustering of database.

>
> We launched two new sites done in sf 6 months ago - no problems so far
> (I spent a long time figuring out the caching for most of the modules).
>
> We are also busy redesigning/building pieces of an existing static site
> running across a cluster of machines and averaging 2 to 4 million hits per
> day.