Migrating from Mambo to Another CMS?

Pikoro asks: "I put up a website a while back for personal use and I have been using Mambo to keep the site in order. One problem though. It seems that Mambo is not all that scalable. The website I started in January now gets almost 20,000 unique users a day and Mambo is very SQL heavy. The database is running on a P4 2.4Ghz machine with 1Gb of RAM, and the database server is on it's knees. Do I need to just upgrade the database server, optimize the MySQL installation, or switch to another CMS system. I would prefer the latter since I have had issues with Mambo and wanted to move to more of a weblog style format. Was considering Slashcode as well. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated."

Comments

Re:Changing to another CMS

[hoggoth]

Why on Earth would his readership care what CMS engine is running behind his site?
They are reading articles and comments.
If he switched from MySQL to PostGreSQL would he lose readership as well?

I assume he's not going to be an idiot and bring his site down while he installs and configures his new CMS engine.

Re:Changing to another CMS

[cypherz]

OK I don't know much about CMS's but wouldn't it act differently? Possibly different feature sets and look and feel? How would /. readers feel if suddenly the site wasn't running slashcode? (OK, some might rejoice...) But it would look and act differently if it were running another CMS wouldn't it?