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By cklester on
Check out http://www.nanowrimo.org/.
I don't know what version they're using, but it is horribly, unbearably, intolerably slow. I've never seen a fast-performing Drupal site anyway (although Drupal.org seems to be much faster than when I was last here, so obviously there are some tweaks other people are missing). Drupal gurus might want to help them out. Please?! It's not good advertising for the site footer to say, "Powered by Drupal." :)
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Very slow indeed. However, I
Very slow indeed. However, I do not think anyone at Drupal will be concerned about the negative advertising and help to speed this up. There is a ton of information offered here in regards to performance tuning and optimizations, including the optimizations and configuration used to speed up drupal.org. If the site developers feel it is a problem and want to fix the speed issues they can, but I don't think anyone is going to offer to do it for them.
The first thing todo is to install the devel module and figure out what is causing the slowness. I have seen the og module and localize modules cause severe slowness. There are patches available for most issues. Find the cause of the slowness and turn off those modules or find a patch that speeds them up. There are a lot of other things that can be done as well on both the hardware and software side.
If nanorimo.org really wants some help they should also post their hardware/software specs to help the community make suggestions.
My personal Drupal site.
http://www.regx.dgswa.com/html/index.php
Probably a non-issue now
By this point I think it's a foregone conclusion that NaNoWriMo will not walk, but run away from Drupal for next year's event. I was surprised to see they used it for a high-profile site that spikes above 1000 on Alexa; it's their fault and not Drupal's.
It's a huge flop for NaNo people because the website is the experience. I think they can only try to ride it out and keep the site serving pages, however slow. It will all be over in 25 days.
This is not a Drupal issue.
This is not a Drupal issue. It's a hosting issue. This is the organization's main site (domain) served from the same "box" -- http://www.lettersandlight.org/ -- Yeesh! Maybe what's needed is a "Please donate" link to provide for better hosting and not a plea for (site optimization) help to the Drupal community -- 2 cents.
Proton Cannon
Agree
In prior years the hosting / server setup was sufficient, so obviously they were caught by surprise after this year's CMS change. Next year when they go off Drupal it will no doubt be sufficient again. I agree that it's a nonstarter to ask for help from the Drupal community, that has been my experience as well.
bitterness does not become you
To my knowledge, no one from that project asked the community for help in planning, setting up or building out there site. If they paid someone, then they need to look to those consultants and apply the lessons they learned to next years project.
Are you speaking as an official representative from the site? If so, you seem to be fear mongering and trying to 'guilt' people into helping. Neither approach does well for you personally or as an official representative from the nonwrimo folks either. So are you representing them? Do they know this?
To be honest, it even seems they have a post explaining what happened.
Drupal is not a magic bullet. It is a complex CMS that lets you do complex things very well. It takes proper planning to accomplish this. If you do not plan properly, then you will have issues. Drupal.org is in the Alexa top 1000 and has been for some time. Other Drupal sites are in the top 1000 Alexa as well. Are you implying that they are? Cause they aren't.
Your 22 hour old account points to length of your experience in asking for help. The Drupal community is not here to be your whipping post.
-Steven Peck
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-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide
retracted, then
You're right -- I wanted to be terse and impatient but I came off as a passive aggressive jerk. I'm not involved with either project closely enough to criticize, so I'll stfu now.
The site is holding up much
The site is holding up much better than last year's did -- it was down almost constantly during the late-October rush last year, and only went down twice (one of which was scheduled downtime to add RAM to the server) during that period this year. Russ is doing a phenomenal job building a high-traffic site with too few resources on a new (to him) CMS, all while working a full time job and writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days.
As a NaNoWriMo participant, I jumped in to help what little I could before this thread was started -- we all have too little time these days for everything we'd like to do. I appreciate that you seem to be trying to drum up more support for the nano site, but the tone in this thread is unduly critical, especially coming from outside the nanowrimo community, and without having seen what Russ is up against.
Susan (Wrimo and Drupaller)
HedgeMage is right, Russ is
HedgeMage is right, Russ is absolutely awesome.
It's worth noting that NaNoWriMo receives an incredible amount of traffic for the first few days of November; and that is completely beyond the traffic they get at pretty much the rest of the time. The resources they have for it, right now, are as much of an impediment as anything in Drupal.
Keep an eye out on the Drupal Planet feed; Russ is working on a post-mortem about Drupal, what he did, and how things went.
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