Posted by mkmagu on May 4, 2011 at 1:03am
I've come across Mercury on both the Linode site & Drupal. Does anyone have any experience with it? I'm wondering how important is it to use on a drupal site? How big a site do you need to consider using it? How much of a learning curve??? It maybe a good topic for a meet up!
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Mercury is billed as a
Mercury is billed as a pre-configured stack that Drupal can run on with better page serving performance. We researched varnish (what Mercury runs on) and other reverse proxy setups but eventually settled on nginx to solve our high traffic issues. Typically none of this is needed unless you are getting several concurrent hits to your site and your server is not able to serve pages fast enough and gets bogged down or crashes. It's somewhat of a learning curve to do everything properly. Point being, if you don't need it, don't worry about it :)
Thanks for the response, are
Thanks for the response, are you using nginx by it's self or are you using Apache with it. I almost installed nginx for my current sites but decided to go with Apache instead.
Mary M.
We are currently using nginx
We are currently using nginx as a reverse proxy in front of Apache. Apache is certainly the default Web server but more and more we're finding it doesn't handle high traffic well at all.
Omega8
I've been using the mercury project over at Omega8.cc for all new development at my new job. They are using it in combination with Aegir as well. I have been very impressed with the performance, but I will not be able to test it's true potential until our trade show comes around in November.
Ryan Hartman
Web Developer
www.devkinetic.com