Performance tuning and optimization of high traffic Drupal sites

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kbahey - Mon, 01/21/2008 - 12:43am
Presenters: 
Khalid Baheyeldin
Narayan Newton
Jeremy Andrews
David Strauss
Steve Rude
Scott Mattoon
Konstantin Kaefer
Track: 
site building
Proceedings Have Been Posted: 
Proceedings Have Been Posted
Session Description: 

SESSION OVERVIEW
So, you’ve built a spiffy Drupal site, and it is starting to get traffic. That shared host you have been using wants you off their servers. You are a victim of your own success. What do you do next? This session is about how to scale a Drupal site facing increased traffic.

TRACK
Site building.

AGENDA
* Definition of terms.
* Hardware.
* The L (Linux)
* The A (Apache)
* The M (MySQL)
* The P (PHP)
* Drupal caching solutions.
* Tools for performance monitoring.

GOALS
Attendees will be able to understand the issues surrounding LAMP web site scalability, tuning and optimization.

Here are the slides from the presentation in PDF format (18MB).

Scheduled: 
accepted
Session start time: 
03/04/2008 - 1:45pm - 03/04/2008 - 3:15pm
Average: 4.8 (26 votes)

get a big room

jpoesen - Tue, 02/19/2008 - 1:01am
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Please make sure there is a big room for this talk. At the FrOSCon convention in Germany last year the room was way too small, so the it was totally packed and lots of people couldn’t get in…


For a deeper treatment

David Strauss - Sun, 03/02/2008 - 5:20pm
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At the request of a few people, I’ve set up a BoF session for deeper treatment of database architecture.


 
 

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