MembershipProvider for complex websites.

[craigkenisston]

I just have this simple question. Is this membership provider intended
for usage only in small websites?
Let's say, if you plan a big ecommerce software, which would require
you to add many additional fields to the users and some other stuff
that is not in the out-of-the-box membership provider, would you still
using it as basis ? or would you write your own membership system right
from scratch ?

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

I've recently examind it for large-scale systems and it's very flexible. One
of the things to keep in mind though, a lot of the information could be done
with the personalization system instead of adding to the membership
structure. For instance, address is a personal value and can be used in the
personalization as opposed to adding fields to the membership store.

 

[Jon Paal]

if you modify from base example or write from scratch it's still "your code" so, no difference