I'm a Project Manager and designer, I have programming skills, but am new to Moodle. I'm currently designing and managing a Flash-based course with over 400 learning objects. We want to use Flash for all navigation and interaction and Moodle to handle user admin and tracking of results. We're looking at 60,000+ users. I guess we're pushing the envelope a little... Anybody know of such a setup?
About Flash replacing Moodle interaction: I see a conflict of philosophies. It could definitely be done but you must ask yourself twice, why, or whether Moodle is the right choice.
On large installations: Check http://docs.moodle.org/en/Large_installations The point is, the number of registered doesn't say much about the performance needed. Chcek http://docs.moodle.org/en/Performance and http://docs.moodle.org/en/Performance_FAQ
P.S. You are docked to an old discussion. It's worth to move this subthread to a new thread.
On large installations: Check http://docs.moodle.org/en/Large_installations The point is, the number of registered doesn't say much about the performance needed. Chcek http://docs.moodle.org/en/Performance and http://docs.moodle.org/en/Performance_FAQ
P.S. You are docked to an old discussion. It's worth to move this subthread to a new thread.
In reply to Paul Ricketts
Re: Large flash based site (was "Scaleablity of Moodle")
by Howard Miller -
Hi Paul,
I moved this into a new discussion as it's really a different question.
In some ways it's a bit of a waste to use Moodle as a flash player but there's plenty that do just that. As has been said before there's no really limit to the number of users you can service. You just need to throw hardware at the problem. As flash is client side your big issue is likely to be bandwidth. Other than that you are going to need a bunch of load-balanced web servers. How many depends on the number of simultaneous users you expect.
Will this be 60,000 users from day one? I always advocate the cautious approach. Install a small scalable system and monitor, monitor, monitor.
I moved this into a new discussion as it's really a different question.
In some ways it's a bit of a waste to use Moodle as a flash player but there's plenty that do just that. As has been said before there's no really limit to the number of users you can service. You just need to throw hardware at the problem. As flash is client side your big issue is likely to be bandwidth. Other than that you are going to need a bunch of load-balanced web servers. How many depends on the number of simultaneous users you expect.
Will this be 60,000 users from day one? I always advocate the cautious approach. Install a small scalable system and monitor, monitor, monitor.