S3 static site module

Posted by andy tawse on May 21, 2013 at 1:20pm

Hi,

I wanted to get feedback about whether releasing our module sounds like a good idea.

Our company has developed a module that publishes static Drupal nodes to S3 as they are saved or during a full site crawl. We've used this on a few projects where there is a need to cope with large traffic spikes (e.g. websites that support TV broadcasts) and where the content is relatively simple but there is still a need for content management. So quite niche but hopefully useful to some.

I've had a good look and can't find anything that does the same. The Boost module, which was our inspiration in some ways, didn't provide exactly what we needed - complete separation from Drupal (never hitting it) and the Boost module crawler is deprecated.

There's more detailed information here http://numiko.com/labs/2012/12/static-drupal-sites-for-high-traffic/

A future improvement could be to allow destinations for the static files other than S3 (pluggable modules).

thanks
Andy

Comments

High Traffic related with Performance, sounds very interesting!

Posted by dydave on May 22, 2013 at 10:38am

Hi Andy,

Thanks a lot for your contribution and letting us know about this module, it certainly sounds like a great idea.

Just a quick reply to suggest you might consider cross posting this page in the High Performance DUG, I would surely be interested in hearing if any guys in this group would have additional ideas, experiences or questions.

Future evolutions surely sound very promising.
Thanks!

Hi @Andy, Thanks for

Posted by jygastaud on May 27, 2013 at 10:21am

Hi @Andy,

Thanks for feedback.
I think your module can be very helpful and it will be great if you share it.

Once done, you can update the page "Creating a static archive of a Drupal site" on wiki : http://drupal.org/node/27882

As an alternative to your project, I saw (but never tested yet) the "Save to FTP project" : http://drupal.org/project/savetoftp which looks to have an S3 option.