By brooklynwebguy on

Hi --

First of all if anyone responsible for the site's new zippiness is reading this: Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Now my question: I have been tasked with taking a university news and pr site that currently gets about 12000 hits a day and putting it into Drupal. Trust that I will do everything now documented to optimize the site with the possible exception of opcode caching (that's been requested but it's out of my control). I don't know the specs on the server I'm putting it on but I'm sure it's very well-equipped. I will however be sharing it with a smattering of other websites, though not many and none with anything close to the traffic the site I'm doing will get.

From the standpoint of Drupal, is 12,000 page hits a lot or no? Not that I am planning to, but would it be feasible to host this on say, a Dreamhost shared account?

Sorry for seeming like such an ignoramus. I am a coder in a place where all the hardware details are taken care of by others and I admit I find their work completely uninteresting. However, I have to take an interest now because I am sort of winning a battle to get Drupal adopted and don't want to end up with egg on my face.

Any help or links to other Drupal threads would be much appreciated.

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brooklynwebguy commented

Made a mistake in my headline.

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brooklynwebguy commented

There will be maybe 10 logged in contributors. The rest is anonymous traffic.

Have been checking out other posts on this topic; still not quite sure what to do.

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First: Dreamhost? NO!!! They have performance problems with MySql that your level of traffic would probably have problems with.

12K hits is a pretty good level, where you may see some performance hits on occasion. However, anonymous users see cached content (assuming you have it enabled), so they will see fewer problems than one might think. You definitely should use CSS compression once you go live - it makes a difference.

If the other sites are being considered for converting, you may want to search here on "multi-site" for ideas on how to set it up to accommodate an easier conversion. There's also a multi-site group at groups.drupal.org.

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