2011
3.4 million page views per day, 92 M per month, one server and Drupal
by holyver (via)In this talk, Khalid of 2bits.com, Inc., Inc will talk about a how to scale a Drupal web site with the following statistics.
3.4 million pages per day peak
92 million page views per month
189,650 page views per hour peak
840,000 visits on peak day
22.96 million visits per month
52,747 visits per hour peak
So far, this is the highest traffic a Drupal site gets that we heard of.
What is amazing is that this web site runs on a single mid range server ...
2009
scaling drupal - an open-source infrastructure for high-traffic drupal sites | johnandcailin
by holyver & 1 otherin this article, i outline a step-by-step process for incrementally scaling your deployment, from a simple single-node drupal install running all components of the system, all the way to a load balanced, multi node system with database level optimization and clustering.
since you almost certainly don't want to jump straight from your single node system to the mother of all redundant clustered systems in one step, i've broken this down into 5 incremental steps, each one building on the last. each step along the way is a perfectly viable deployment.
2008
Drupal Performance and Scalability | Tag1 Consulting, Inc.
by holyver (via)Obtaining Optimal Performance From Drupal And The LAMP Stack
load test your drupal application scalability with apache jmeter | johnandcailin
by holyver & 2 others (via)there are many things that you can do to improve your drupal application's scalability, some of which we discussed in the recent scaling drupal - an open-source infrastructure for high-traffic drupal sites article.
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