New Drupal/AMFPHP/Flex site
Some history: I developed a Plone CMS/XML/Flash app a year ago for a university and have had problems with speed, XML filesize and scalability (for rather obvious reasons). Now I have a contract for a MAJOR music/film entertainer and want similar functionality with increased speed and use of AMF. I started yesterday with custom php/mySQL and Flash Remoting and then found this group. :-)
I have been told the entertainer typically receives 150,000 unique visitors a month although there is a performance at the winter Olympics in China (March, site premiere) and there will be a huge surge in traffic, also a new CD and a tour in 2008. Typically there are between 100-200 active site visitors from what I can see on the current site.
My initial query is about performance. I have searched previous posts to this group, googled and reviewed all the example sites. I don't see any sites that might have this many simultaneous visitors.
Does anyone have any advice, warnings, experience with a Drupal/AMFPHP/Flex solution for a major A-list celebrity, or other high traffic sites?
Hopefully this is an appropriate choice and I can work with this great group for ideas.
Sincerely yours,
Wishbone
Two things I learned:
Two things I learned:
I can't give you performance stats yet.
Flex and CDN's
Thanks for the tips toemaz.
I will check out the Flash options - I have found the docs at modern-carpentry.com about using Flash AS3 instead of Flex. I'll dig a little deeper.
As for the CDN tip - I have a dedicated server at Rackspace already for this site - it will allow me install Drupal and any modules or dependencies. I planned on running the Drupal and the Flex on this same box - can you explain how this will be a problem?
Thanks.
Re: New Drupal/AMFPHP/Flex site
Hi wishbone,
The http://www.flex.org/showcase is built using Flex and Drupal. My user group (in conjunction with the DUG in Seattle) did a presentation on this integration last year. I have the slides for the presentation if you want them, PM me with your info.
Also I would give you a word of caution if you plan to have your whole site be Flex. With a high-profile site, if it's all Flex you will have issues with getting it FULLY indexed by Google and the like.
Best Regards,
Ali D.,
User Group Manager,
Seattle Adobe Flex User Group
http://www.seaflexug.org
http://www.flexcodejam.org
spiders in the logs
Indeed (PM sent), but will the spiders crawl the Drupal content? Maybe I'll need to submit a "Drupal'd" link instead of the Flash/Flex front end?
Interesting point....
Thanks for the slides.
If the data being displayed
If the data being displayed in the Flex app is not readily availble to the public ( and spiders ) then the answer is no. I would suggest using the XML Sitemap module to provide Google a sitemap to crawl. Either way content requests from within the Flex app will not prove valuable to your rankings
vision media
350designs
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http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/
SWFAddress
As tourguide mentions below, look into using SWFAddress with your Flash/Flex app. This will allow your flash site to accept 'urls' (really just specially formatted anchors in the address) which enables bookmarking. To get better SEO, look into the SEO methods for SWFAddress (http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/samples/seo/). What happens with the SEO method is you have an .htaccess which allows spiders (like Google) to crawl to real html links (/about/me) but if a person using a web browser visits, she is directed instead to the SWFurl (#/about/me). Google will then pick up all the content and links (to /about/me) but when a user clicks that link from google she will be auto-redirected to the SWFurl and the flash site will load and take them to that specific content.
B.McMurray
New Drupal/AMFPHP/Flex site
Hi Devguy,
I want to develop a site in drupal and flex. i very new to flex. can u please send me the presentations.
My gmail id: sagar.sijju@gmail.com
Thanks in advance.
Drupal/Flash with no AMFPHP
I have created 5 sites and am working on a 6th that use Drupal and Flash. I opted not to use AMFPHP because we are not using Flash to do data entry so there really is no need as far as I can tell. Take a look:
These are English only:
http://www.serta.com
http://www.pennzoil.com
http://www.quakerstate.com
These have internationalization:
http://www.pennzoil.ca
http://www.quakerstate.ca
Feel free to ping me if you like.
Cheers,
Jason