scalability

To make it easier to find information on these matters, I've started the new handbook page Drupal caching, speed and performance in the Tutorials section of drupal.org. It's just a guide to information and tutorials on optimizing Drupal's performance, speed, and scalability, with an initial listing of fourteen resources. If anything is missing, you may edit it to add other useful Drupal performance resources.

As seen on Planet Drupal, the recent article Improving Drupal's Performance with the Boost Module for the UN's Millennium Campaign (October 23rd, 2008) describes how a Drupal site successfully managed a very high traffic situation. They achieved this with "one enormously helpful Drupal module, called Boost", and "some fine tuning".

I posted some internal benchmarks from the Xapian module we are working on in the Trellon.com blog. This post describes the performance gains using Xapian can have and does some benchmarking on a really, really slow server.

Would love it if someone could verify those results. We are about to take the sample size of the data up to about 1mil nodes and repeat.

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Hi Ken --

I know you've deployed MySite on some large sites, and was wondering if you have any specific comments on the scalability aspects of MySite. Caching of data that gets pulled per user necessary? Fine out of the box because each user has a custom page (assume private)?

Feedback and techniques appreciated.

I can't believe I only just found this group. In case you didn't get it through Planet Drupal, at CivicActions I have been working hard on the Witness Hub Map. It is a mashup of google maps with the Hub with enhancements that make it appealing, interactive, fun and (almost) infinitely scalable.

A quick browse through many public-facing websites at the University of Prince Edward Island reveals a growing trend: UPEI has been converting many of its existing websites to Drupal.

OpenCraft hosted a 3.5 hour seminar that I presented on Drupal performance tuning and optimization. You can find the slides from the presentation there, which can be useful to some of you.

In case you have not seen it, there are a bunch of articles on Drupal performance tuning and optimization at 2bits.com.