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List of Moodle sites with a large number of users.

The following pages (started in 2005) list large Moodle installations. Feel free to add details of your large site to the relevant page. As not all sites are registered or public, these lists are not comprehensive.
Currently the largest known Moodle installation is the Open University of Beijing, China with over 3.5 million users.

Architecture

Large scale Moodle infrastructures can be set up on different types of machines, from bare metal to compartmentalized virtual containers (or Kubernetes Pods).
In this section, we will try to share and put together some case study examples of such technological concepts of running very large scale Moodle systems.

On premise

Bare metal or Virtualization for Moodle Server_cluster setup.
Clustering Moodle on Multiple Servers for High Availability and Scalability.

Public clouds

Amazon (AWS) EC2 (VMs) with auto scaling groups and managed services (Storage, Caching, Database, CI/CD).
- Moodle Horizontal Scalable Deployment on AWS stack
- Hosting high availability Moodle on AWS (Spanish)
- Auto-Scaling Moodle Architecture on AWS 2015
- Moodle with AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- Cloud infrastructure for high concurrency slides, video 2019 Moodle MOOT Global presentation.
Amazon (AWS) Docker containers with auto scaling groups and managed services (Storage, Caching, Database, CI/CD).
Google (GPC) Kubernetes including automated managed micro services (Storage, Caching, Database, CI/CD, document conversions)
Microsoft (Azure) - Deploy and Manage a Scalable Moodle Cluster on Azure
GÉANT webinar about "Managing and running large scale Moodle system, for IT" including video recording & presentations of several different Moodle system architectures.

Custom setup and Tips

A list of Performance_recommendations tuning tweaks you should consider applying to your system.
Bare metal vs Virtualization, consideration relevant to the specific way Moodle is built.
Save some budget with AWS infrequent access EFS
Deploying Moodle on Azure – things you should know
Moodle Caching at Scale

Community support

Moodle Hardware and performance forum.
Large scale Moodle IT support Telegram group (click to join) (discussion archive)

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+== List of Moodle sites with a large number of users. ==
+*The following pages (started in 2005) list large Moodle installations. Feel free to add details of your large site to the relevant page. As not all sites are registered or public, these lists are not comprehensive.
+*Currently the largest known Moodle installation is the [http://en.ouchn.edu.cn/ Open University of Beijing, China] with over 3.5 million users.
+*[[Installations 1000 plus]] users
+*[[Installations 5000 plus]] users
+*[[Installations 10000 plus]] users
+*[[Installations 30000 plus]] users
+*[[Installations 250000 plus]] users
+*[[Installations 300000 plus]] users
 == Architecture ==
 Large scale Moodle infrastructures can be set up on different types of machines, from bare metal to compartmentalized virtual containers (or Kubernetes Pods).<br />
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 === On premise ===
 * Bare metal or Virtualization for Moodle [[Server_cluster]] setup.
+* [https://severalnines.com/database-blog/clustering-moodle-multiple-servers-high-availability-and-scalability Clustering Moodle on Multiple Servers for High Availability and Scalability].
 === Public clouds ===
 * [https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-refarch-moodle Amazon (AWS) EC2 (VMs)] with auto scaling groups and managed services (Storage, Caching, Database, CI/CD).
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 * [https://aws.amazon.com/efs/features/infrequent-access/ Save some budget with AWS infrequent access EFS]
 * [https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-mysql/deploying-moodle-on-azure-things-you-should-know/ba-p/814054 Deploying Moodle on Azure – things you should know]
+* [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/images_dev/2/29/Caching_Moodle_at_Scale.pdf Moodle Caching at Scale]
 == Community support ==
 * Moodle [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=596 Hardware and performance] forum.
-* [https://t.me/large_scale_moodle Large scale Moodle IT support] Telegram group (click to join)
+* [https://t.me/large_scale_moodle Large scale Moodle IT support] Telegram group (click to join) ([http://moodlemagic.info/moodle/large_scale_systems_telegram_chat/messages.html discussion archive])
-== List of Moodle systems by user count ==
-This page was started in December 2005. Inclusion on these pages is by self selection and completely voluntary. There are more sites which meet these criterion that are not listed.
-*[[Installations 1000 plus]] users
-*[[Installations 5000 plus]] users
-*[[Installations 10000 plus]] users
-*[[Installations 30000 plus]] users
-*[[Installations 250000 plus]] users
-*[[Installations 300000 plus]] users
 == See also ==
-*[http://moodle.org/mod/choice/view.php?id=3934 How big is your Moodle site?] choice activity (Sorry, this activity is currently hidden)
 *[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=36216 Chart of schools (by size) that are using Moodle] forum discussion
 *[http://moodle.org/stats/ Moodle statistics]
 *[[Institutions that have Migrated to Moodle]]
-*[https://moodle.com/news/safeguarding-scaling-large-university-moodle-environments Scaling large case studies from Moodle Certified Premium Partner Catalyst IT]
+*[https://moodle.com/news/safeguarding-scaling-large-university-moodle-environments Scaling large case studies from Moodle Certified Premium Partner and Service provider Catalyst IT]
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