Ability for codecharge created site to handle large volume of traffic?

Quote peterr:

There is no performance difference whether you use CCS or program manually, if you use the same approach. Your application could just as well work exactly the same as CCS application does.

But in practice the answer to your questions also mainly depends on the technology choice.
For example when using .NET you probably won't see a noticeable difference in performance whether you use CCS or not.

When using ASP or PHP, I am assuming that you would manually create your application without the template-based approach that CCS uses, in which case your application could be twice as fast, if it is properly written. (I also saw manually created applications that were slower than CCS)
This is not related to CCS itself, but mostly depends on creating template-driven applications where the design is separated from the code. I'm not sure if you could implement such template-based methodology that could work faster than what CCS does.
Thus in practice when using ASP or PHP this may translate to executing about 1 - 4 million pages per 10-hour day (depending on the hardware) with well-written manual code that doesn't use HTML templates, vs. 0.5 - 3 million pages per day for applications created by CCS or manually written code that uses templates for separating the code from the design.
If you expect to display more than half a million pages per day then you may want to get good hardware with more memory.

Moving onto Java, the world's largest portal systems (Oracle, BEA, IBM, Sun) that were manually written and cost $hundreds of thousands and drive the largest Websites usually use template-based approach like CCS but they often assemble pages from a lot of various sets of data and template parts, store some parts of templates in the database, perform a lot of data logging, and in the end can be much slower than Java applications created with CCS. They also require much more server power and memory (1 GB is often minimum). Assuming that you'd be able to write such wonderful and full-featured enterprise applications, they would most certainly be much slower than CCS apps

Quote jpo245:

Hi, I'm pretty new to web development, and have a question.

For sites with large databases, i understand much of the processing time required to generate a page, comes from the SQL query itself, which could take a while, especially if plouging through millions of records with multiple joins.

I'm curious about the actually processing power needed by php to generate the data display page. I am debating whether i should entirely hand code a site to keep it efficient, of should i save time to build the base of it at least from CCS, and then modify.

Would I suffer a great performance decrease if I use CCS? I understand that the SQL query is often the bottle neck, but apart from SQL query times, would CCS generated code significantly affect page display times especially if the site is handling a huge load (1000 hits in a few seconds).

Thanks!