By i25 on

Hey guys,
I just heard about Drupal a couple of days ago. I'm doing some research for the best technology to use which would meet the following requirements:

-Thousands of registered users
-Video upload and sharing
-User profiles
-Job listings and classifieds
-Online payment for ads and listings
-Advertising

I know that Drupal already satisfies some of these requirements (registered users, ads etc), but what about the rest? Thanks in advance!

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sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

The answer is that it can do all of it, but that answer is very conditional on a lot of things and it will take some work. I mention that you are registered user 282,247 on drupal.org.

Now Public is Drupal based and seems to actually be doing most of your list.

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prbass commented

Drupal is what everyone needs - some people just haven't realised it yet!
Short answer: yes you can do all of those things.

For instance, Sony chose Drupal 5 to power this site: http://myplay.com/

This would have taken many, many hours of work by a team of experienced web developers and designers.

The downside is: It won't be easy

There are plenty of contributed modules that will help you to achieve this goal, but they might not do everything you need.

Drupal is a shortcut, because it is a pre-built content management framework, but it can't provide a ready made solution to every requirement.

Those are pretty serious enterprise level requirements - thousands of users uploading and sharing video content will put crazy strain on your whole technology stack - the server, the database etc.

I encourage you to give Drupal a try - it really is the best open source CMS (stick to version 5 for now - version 6 is still a few months a way from having the key modules ready to roll) - but don't think using drupal is a ready made alternative to doing your own web development.