By XiMac on

Hi:

We are moving from a very tweaked Movable Type 2.61 to Drupal. (I know, I know ... Dinosaurs! :P ).

Our site actually has more than 21.000 entries and more than 700.000 coments. We find a solution to move to Drupal (in fact, we are in the process now). Our site has a lot of traffic (70.000 visits/day and serve over 200/250.000 pages/day - roughly-).

We are working over a 2 (equal) servers (one for http, other for Databases) with this configuration:
- FreeBSD Operating System
- Intel Celeron 2.8GHz CPU
- 2GB DDR3200 SDRAM

We are now on development process, and that is my question:

What we would do (and more important - not to do) to assure a good performance of Drupal with this traffic (traffic that roughly doubles year by year)?

Any sugestion will be very wellcome!!.

Thanks a lot

XiMac

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kbahey commented

Start by reading the series of articles at 2bits on Drupal performance tuning and optimization for large web sites.

Also, try to attend the Drupal performance and scalability seminar. The fee goes to the Drupal Association.
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XiMac commented

This is invaluable info for me.

Thnks, :)

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kbahey commented

Please do the same and post your experience as a followup to this topic.

This way, everyone benefits.
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