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Is it possible to build a high-traffic Drupal community website without hacking?
I would like to find out from anyone that has built a high traffic Drupal community website ( a website with at least 500,000 visitors a month, with anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 authenticated users at any one time ), is it is possible to create this kind of site without having to do a high level of hacking to make Drupal scale? Can standard Drupal scale without a lot of query and other types of hacking / coding handle this traffic and user levels?
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Good performace on shared hosting?
Hi guys,
I figured this is probably the best place to discuss Drupal 7 performance for sites in shared hosting environment.
I installed a D7 site on godaddy servers the other day and am puzzled with my page load times. Most significantly it seems that latency is the biggest problem but as I am not necessarily the most knowledgeable on that subject I'd like to get some opinions from other members.
I did all I could to improve my site and it scores 95 with page speed and 91 with Yslow. One would expect a pretty fast site with those scores right? But page load speeds are rather on the slow side.
Read moreQuick way to load entity fields
Hey all,
While trying to optimize load times, I found this simple method to be useful when wanting simply access fields of an entity without further hook invocations - http://lechronicles.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/lighter-version-of-loading-fi.... Thought it might help someone and also looking for feedback to better it.
Thanks
Read moreAPC Module Problems in Multisite Environment
I'm attempting to install the APC module on Drupal 7 in a multisite environment. To do the implementation, I've enabled the APC module and updated my settings.php file according to the documentation suggestions. Here's the code:
/**
* Add APC Caching.
/*
$conf['cache_backends'] = array('sites/all/modules/contrib/apc/drupal_apc_cache.inc');
$conf['cache_default_class'] = 'DrupalAPCCache';
//$conf['apc_show_debug'] = TRUE; // Remove the slashes to use debug mode.
D6: Slow Page Loads and Time to First Byte
Our site is experiencing some very poor page load times. According to Google Analytics, our average page load time is 10.22 seconds over the last month. Some pages like http://www2.buildinggreen.com/blogs/end-line-passive-solar are averaging over 22 seconds. I've also run a test on webpagetest.org which indicated that our average TTFB is 3-5 seconds.
We are using APC and Varnish and have caching enabled in drupal. What is the best way go about debugging an issue like this? Are there any recommendations for adjustments that could be made to apache, php or mysql that might improve this?
Read moreWhich strategy for a server with a lot of small sites ?
Hi everybody,
I've some experience with only one big website, but now I've a new challenge. I've a server with multiples (around 10 and growing) Drupal sites.
At first I was thinking that you will the same like a big site (microcache, varnish and etc..), but seems to be that it's not working.
Unfortunately, each site has only a few visitors that its useless to active any cache. But from my point of view theses sites are too slow (for some of them they require more than 1s to load), and because they've so little visitors each request almost always use PHP-FPM.
Read moreRouting authenticated traffic to another domain
I'm running an online store, at the moment I've been hosting on Pantheon but it's not as fast as I'd hoped especially given my main customer base is in Australia.
I've been experimenting with a bunch of high performance setups, but once you throw whole site SSL into the mix things get really messy ...
I was thinking about an architecture like this:
- CloudFlare sits on top providing our SSL layer (end to end mode). This gives us SPDY support which means our static assets load nice and fast.
Really slow query time and high load on CPU
Hey guys,
First time here but always reading and using your tips. I run a decent size site over at http://www.2old2play.com/
Page loads are kinda all over the place. I've got memcached, Varnish and APC all rolling and it's sped things up tremendously. However I still have issues with a delay to first byte and insanely long submission for new posts (up to 44 sec).
I've started using newrelic which is AMAZING, but I still don't know how to go about fixing the issue. This is what I've got so far....
node - SELECT
Action /views_page
Max time
12,894 ms
Answer to my prayers :) ?
Has anyone got any experience of running Drupal (7) with http://quercus.caucho.com (compiles PHP into Java and apparently gives a 4x performance improvement).
There are some simple instructions on how to run Drupal 6 on "Resin 3.x". In the very near future I'm going to have a go with D7 on Resin 4.x and will let you know.
Read morePressflow 6 or D7?
Which is faster? Which scales better for large sites with a lot of data and traffic? If Pressflow 6 is faster, is the difference significant enough to consider building a new site with it? I've heard that D7 was slower initially, but there have been improvements more recently that closed the gap.
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