Advantages & Disadvantages of DotNetNuke?

Question

If you have worked with DotNetNuke, what are advantages and disadvantages that you have come across? What are alternative Content Management Systems that you have used that you find are better or worst. I'm trying to get a feel of what Content Management System Frameworks people are using and the advantages and disadvantages of them.

Thanks, XaiSoft

Solution 1

This post may help as it has covered some of this info!

Solution 2

DotNetNuke works well, and has a wide variety of addins that are available for purchase from various vendors. It is also open source which is nice, as it allows you to troubleshoot issues to a deeper level then if it was closed source.

We didn't spend a lot of time researching CMS systems but this past summer we couldn't find anything with the functionality of DotNetNuke which targets the .net framework. If your not tied to .net then there are a ton of options available.

Solution 3

DNN is very very dynamic in terms of functionality, features and security. There's is nothing like it. However there are a few drawbacks that i felt while using it.

The biggest drawback in my opinion is the response time of a DNN using sites. The code itself is very obsolete and you need to lock yourself and scour on each and every coding details before using DNN. One more is the URL dependency, if you need to change your domain name to another your old database will be of no use.

There are a lot of new promising CMS extension in Dot NET market and Sageframe, in my opinion, is the best of them. I have been using this extension for quite a time now and I am quite fascinated by its features though still in beta.

Solution 4

DotNetNuke is quite powerful. It's biggest advantage is the inline editing of site content, in my opinion. It's biggest disadvantage is that it is pretty resource intensive compared to other CMS systems.

Here's a comparison I wrote last month:

http://www.logicalvue.com/blog/2009/01/cms-shootout-dotnetnuke-vs-joomla-vs-wordpress/

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Comments

[Vishal_Kotecha]

Thanks! I just finished reading that.

[Paul Lefebvre]

I've never used drupal so I couldn't comment on it.

[Jarrod]

I have used DNN and Wordpress a lot. I tried drupal and did not like it at all. After about a week of working through it, I switched the site to wordpress. DNN is the most intuitive CMS in my opinion. I have also used joomla a long time ago. DNN seems to trump them all.

[El Amor Zeewon]

I agree with You .I have also been using sageframe and found it flexible and promising with quite fascinating features.