By BadAssWright on

Well first off, Drupal is the SH*T. I mean out of everything i saw so far on the net for CMS it rules, but I have been looking around and i see that alot of people are having speed problems, and i even notice it when i am on drupal.org that it lags out for about 4-7 secs then loads the page. Dont say its my internet because i am running on fios internet and every other site runs fine. BUT i still love drupal. another things i love about it is the clean urls very sexy, but the one thing i dont like is the /node/ thing i was wondering if there was a way to take that out but if not owell, but back to the speed problem has anyone found a fix to this. i am guessing that its because of the mysql database because it opens to many connections at once and has to wait for some to close before another one can be open, but hey i am not an expert yet.

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bkno’s picture

bkno commented

I've been finding this site very slow lately but other sites are fine. Is this just a slow server or the software struggling under heavy load?

UK based.

sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

It depends on the server load.

I believe we had over 2TB of http traffic in December. With the 5.0 release and Association announcement we've driven traffic up more. During US Daylight hours the traffic load on the server is generally significantly higher.

The current hardware configuration is two front ends and one back end database server. There is work being done to change this a bit but as with all things, will just take time.

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zoon_unit’s picture

zoon_unit commented

Does Drupal use a PHP precompiler, like Zend optimizer? I also remember a post recently by a Drupal developer of another precompiler (can't remember the name), which gave him a 5-10x speed improvement.

If Drupal's not using one, why not?

heine’s picture

heine commented

I've used Drupal with two different Opcode caches / optimizers just fine: Alternative PHP cache (apc) and eAccelerator. There are more; xcache, for example.
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WhatTheFawk’s picture

WhatTheFawk commented

For the /node thing ya want Path Auto - http://drupal.org/project/pathauto

BadAssWright’s picture

BadAssWright commented

Thanks for the help guess it does help out alot, hope my site becomes nice, LOVE!