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Hosting advice wanted.

Posted by keyo on November 27, 2008 at 9:15pm

I will be hosting an auction site which will get quite a bit of traffic (expected 2000 viewers) on the day of every auction. Most of the time it will be quite a low traffic. What hosting would I need to accommodate this? What steps should I take to optimize performance. I've looked at media temple, mosso, slicehost and a few others.
Should I go for a cluster, vps or dedicated server.

Thanks.

Speed up content delivery using technologies like Zeus

Posted by gdtechindia on November 28, 2008 at 1:33am

Hi Everyone,

I was thinking if some advanced server technologies can help to speed up the Drupal Site ?

Something like Zeus (zeus.com) or Litespeed (litespeedtech.com).

Will they be compatible with Drupal.

And has anyone already tried any of these or some other solutions.

I am not very good at programming and linux, so my question may not seem very intelligent to Geeks.

Best Regards
Dhaliwal

Node Creation and Updating

Posted by mrbnet on December 2, 2008 at 9:45pm

I am working on a new Drupal site and it appears to be pretty well tuned for traffic. There are currently 450,000 nodes that are updated on a weekly basis. I am running into some issues with drupal_execute. The script I have created queries a mysql database for all the information for nodes and loops through using drupal_execute to either create a node if one doesn't exist or update if it finds a match based on a specific CCK ID. I can get through about 40,000 nodes before my server comes to a crawl and starts swapping.

CCK Performance

Posted by dewolfe001 on December 9, 2008 at 9:30pm

Hello,
I am planning on doing some benchmarking to assess two models of CCK used in Drupal 5.

Porting to Drupal an changing Server

Posted by svenrissmann on December 12, 2008 at 12:08pm

I'm thinking about to port a site running on self build scripts to Drupal Version 6.
Here're some facts:

Registered Users: ~117.000
Averrage Online: ~6.500
Hits (monthly): ~2.200.000

Most used Modules:
- Forum (14.000+ threads)
- Private Messaging
- Image Gallery
- Buddylist

At the moment it all runs at a Clustered Hosting Plattform.
The Performance is very badly.

My goal is to write import scripts to Drupal and move to a Server like this:

Hardware:

Intel Core2Duo 2x2,4Giga
2Gb of DDR Ram
1TB Mirrored SATA
2x1Gb Intel LAN

Software:

Inordinately high memcache miss rate on Drupal 5 questions

Posted by cdoyle on December 16, 2008 at 3:18am

I've run into what seems to be a problem with memcache. Memcache has a gig of memory and generally sits at around 85% full with over 50% cache misses. The site has been hit with some traffic spikes of around 40k+ visitors per hour (mostly anonymous visits) and this has been enough to take it down (with the additional traffic to another Drupal site running on the same servers). There are two fairly powerful web servers and I think that if memcache were working properly, things would be fine.

D6 Page Compression vs. Apache2 mod_deflate?

Posted by Daniel Norton on December 18, 2008 at 6:26pm

Sorry, I'm sure this is addressed somewhere, but I can't find it. Can someone point me to a discussion that can help me decide whether I should be using Drupal 6 "Page Compression" or Apache2's mod_deflate?

Thanks.

--
Daniel

First Cache Router release for Drupal 7

Posted by slantview on December 28, 2008 at 10:15pm

Hello Drupal world!

I released beta1 of the 7.x branch of Cache Router over the holiday. The new release passes all Core Cache Tests for APC, File, Database, eAccelerator, and Memcache. XCache is currently broken, and I'm working to get that engine working again as well.

Optimizing a Views generated block

Posted by elfur@drupal.org on December 30, 2008 at 11:49pm

I am struggling with the speed on my Views generated blocks. These blocks are essential for the functionality of the front page.

Logged out, with cache enabled both for page and block devel returns horrid page load times:
Executed 144 queries in 59187.65 milliseconds. Queries taking longer than 5 ms and queries executed more than once, are highlighted. Page execution time was 59675.94 ms.

Logged in as admin (uid=1) shows equally horrid page load times:

Utilizing Multiple Caching Strategies?

Posted by joshk on January 2, 2009 at 9:18pm

Last night I (finally) updated my (ultra-simple) personal website to 6.0, and while I was at it I decided to try out some caching ideas that had been brewing in the back of my mind for a while.

Though all caching strategies have their pitfalls and drawbacks, the idea I wanted to try -- combining Boost and Memcache -- seems like a real live-wire. However, if it can be made to work, I think it might offer some significant advantages.

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