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I’m new to the expression engine project at our business. We are being acquired by a large company and they’re worried that expression engine cannot handle traffic for a exp_members table of 10M, and concurrent connections at about 10k.

I know that most people will naturally ask “It all depends on server resources, and how big is your database…”, and we can always have bigger boxes, I’m not really interested in theoretical limits, my question is a bit more practical than that. 

Has anyone had experience with using EE for 5+ millions of users and approx 10k concurrent users, and what has been your experience been with it?

Please help me understand your experience.

It’s a classic “Executive Decision makers (and what they think they understand from a sales slick”
versus Coders and EE fans.

Thank you.

Have you reviewed EllisLabs docs on high traffic sites?
https://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/optimization/handling_extreme_traffic.html

The Obama campaign used ExpressionEngine. I would think if it handled that kind of traffic, it could handle yours if the server resources are scaled to the traffic you are discussing.

This article is a couple years old, but it mentions some of the larger traffic sites where ee was the platform.
http://www.hopstudios.com/blog/the_largest_expressionengine_sites/#.VHqwjzHF98E