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Front-end Slashdot Effect Optimizer
I've been working on the content/slides for my presentation (Front End Performance) in a week and I've been thinking about various trade offs for various situations. One of the more interesting ones has to do with a very popular page where 99% of visitors bounce off; aka the Slashdot effect. When something like this happens, the less open connections to your server the better.
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introduce a high performance free hosting (for drupal)--sae---a GAE like China project , i just finished deploy drupal 6 there
ok , example first to prove that i am telling the truth : http://trackself.sinaapp.com/ just feel its speed!
[background:]
1.SAE: sina app engine , belong to sina.com (China), it's a service like google app engine ,but provide PHP hosting and mysql hosting and more! well , i think it's better than GAE, because i only know php but not python/java. It declare itself cloud service. And better than GAE, it use SVN.
2.Since it offer php and mysql hosting , drupal can be hosted. But a little hack to install.php , nothing more hack
How to Optimizer images in nodes?
Hello,
ImageCache optimize all images uploaded via ImageField. Images pasted from others servers optimized by http://drupal.org/project/get_image. But how can I optimize images added via IMCE or just pasted html code to the node? Because size of some pictures can be reduced 2-3 times and page loading will me much faster (also better SEO results).
Thank you for any advises!
Read moreHow harmful is the PHP Input Format for items like basic blocks and Views Arguments?
I've come into a Pressflow 6 site that needs speeding up, and has a fair amount of PHP Input Format usage for things like Views Arguments and on various blocks in order to provide simple things like base_path(). In my hunt to shave time off of page load times, is it worth much effort to try and move all PHP Input Format code into custom modules?
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Empty memcache bins
Hi all,
I have been having some performance problems on a Drupal multi-site installation. Or rather, some users have been complaining of poor performance so am investigating...
The site(s) in question (totals in the same DB) have over 10,000 users and serve up around 180K hits/72K pages a day. The site is a variety of images, forum, blogs, calendar, etc. but majority of traffic is in the forum. There are 26K nodes, 85K comments in the system.
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Pressflow 6.19.94 & Boost: Browser refresh problem
Hi !
I got a pretty ennoying problem, I have boost activated, pages are correctly generated & served.
But when the user comes back, it gets the content from the browser cache instead of the newly generated "boost html file". You have to hit CTRL F5 to get the new content to be loaded.
I modified htaccess (as suggested here: http://drupal.org/node/1074304 & here http://drupal.org/node/1070232
### BOOST START ###
AddDefaultCharset utf-8
FileETag MTime Size
Off-load image thumbnail creation
Hi all,
Even cheap modern digital cameras can take pictures up to 12MP. So there comes the problem:
A user will upload many large images that will have to be cropped and scaled down twice or more times to create thumbnails, resulting in high server load and memory usage.
Is there any way available or suggestions to offload image thumbnail creation to another machine in order to save critical resources?
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Module idea for performance improvement for thumbnails
Drupal7 only. I was just thinking about the following. A lot of people want to restrict access to thei high resolution images so they chose private but the also show small thumbnails to the public.
If you chose private all thumbnails will be private to causing bootstrap-galore on for example, gallery pages with 30 thumbs.
So the idea was to somehow create an image style that can be applied to save a chose preset (for example thumbnails) in private while saving the rest of the full resolution presets in private.
Read moreBOA high performance setup on AWS
Hello BOA users around the world. I would like to discuss a possible implementation of BOA in a High-Availability / High-Performance setup.
Preface:
I've been using BOA for my business infrastructure on a Linode VPS for almost a year. I've been working on a relatively large website for the past 6 months that will require some flavor of ha/ hp setup since it will serve well over 30k uniques a month and loads of video streaming.
Desired Architecture hosted on AWS
--------------------------------- Load Balancer ---------------------------------
Caching for authenticated users, but not Authcache
Hi,
Please tell me which module I can use as cache system for authenticated users but not Authcache (it doesn't work cause the problems with phpbbforum module)?
For anonymous user I use Boost, but it seems not be recommended to enable the normal Drupal caching with Boost, is this right?
At the moment I installed:
Pressflow
Cache Router (via Memcache)
Path alias cache
Locale Cache
Authcache - not working
Another thing, it is good idea to replace Cache Router with Memcache API http://drupal.org/project/memcache?
http://drupal.org/node/1131468
For sessions caching it says:
