High performance

I maintain a news-oriented site which gets several tens of millions of page views per month. We've recently implemented an effort to include images in all of our articles. This is putting us over our bandwidth limit, which gets expensive very quickly. We are also having a minor dispute with the hosting company regarding the terms of these limits and the cost of purchasing more bandwidth in bulk.

I am recommending a CDN for hosting the images, or, failing that, another dedicated server to manage images and store backups and system monitoring data.

The first alpha version of AdvAgg 7.x has been released.

Summary:
- Everything is working except for CDN's farfuture option.
- If using jQuery Update the advagg_css_cdn and advagg_js_cdn sub modules should be disabled.
- Uses httprl for aggregate building if module is installed.
- New sub module called advagg_mod; allows for tweaks to the css/js like put all JS in the footer.

Hello, it's me again. I've been trying to monitor my site for some days now and it occured to me to re-enable Devel to check out the speed of my queries. Turns out they're the problem. Some pages load faster than others, but for places like the forum, opening a link takes FOREVER, and it's not hard to see why, on one page below these were the longest running queries in the list. There way many more cache drags like the one below.

4755.013ms DrupalDatabaseCache::setP A
SELECT 1 AS expression FROM cache_menu cache_menu WHERE ( (cid = :db_condition_placeholder_0) ) FOR UPDATE
default

Hi

I just wanted to know if anyone had any advice or experience with using small/short audio files in their websites?

I'm intending on placing the odd audio clip into a survey to test advertising effectiveness. The audio clip will be short, around 30 seconds and the survey might be hit by a 1000 users over the period (with the possibility of up to 300 users accessing the survey - and the resulting audio file - at anyone time (depending on when they hit the server).

Hello everyone,

I've spent the past few months figuring out Drupal and I've come a long way I think. I recently set up a site with about roughly 70 modules. It's supposed to be very interactive and I hope to get a lot of logged in users, with groups, forums, etc. By the time I tested it on a live server, I realized the site was actually a bit slow. Along with that I was getting constant complaints from my host. I moved it to a VPS with about 550MB Ram, and though I rarely seem to hit the limit, there are brief (like a few minutes) 'spikes', said spikes result in a warning from my host, and occasionally what looks like a server restart that cripples my site for about ten minutes.

Hi everyone,