scaling drupal - an open-source infrastructure for high-traffic drupal sites

Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 4:14AM
doofdoofsf in Apache, MySQL, debian, drupal, mod_proxy, mod_proxy_balancer, mysql-proxy, sqlrelay, tech

the authors of drupal have paid considerable attention to performance and scalability. consequently even a default install running on modest hardware can easily handle the demands a small website.

if you are lucky, eventually the time comes when you need to service more users than your system can handle. at some point, you'll start looking at your hardware and network deployment.

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Article originally appeared on (http://highscalability.com/).