By Nanovip on

Hi all

I have a popular nanotechnology portal that receives around 8000 visits each day.
I have about 8000 pages so far
The site is mainly text based and is an informational base for university students as well as nano based companies.
The site kind of developed with this red text and has become a sort of icon I think because of the color.

I do have the odd problem with drupal spiking the db's thus shutting down the server. Anyone any clues why Drupal does this. I have tried a higher spec server but it still does it.

www.nanovip.com

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chadj’s picture

chadj commented

With a mostly static site like this, you'll want to make use of caching as much as possible.

/admin/settings/performance

Set caching mode to at least "Normal", possibly even "Aggressive" if you still need more.

Also, under "bandwidth optimizations" on the same page, enable "Aggregate and compress CSS files". This can dramatically reduce number of file requests per new visitor.

There are lots of advanced caching and optimization techniques but if you're having problems with only 8k visitors a day on a mostly static site then it's probably something simple.

- chad

Nanovip’s picture

Nanovip commented

Thanks Chad

My settings are already as you stated . I wondered if the min cache lifetime makes a difference - I have it set at 1 hour?
When I speak to the server people they tell me its definately a scripting problem within drupal

I often have 30 + users on at the same time and this is when things start overloading the DB's.

JohnT

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toma commented

Nice work, i like the way you display the directory, can you please show me, how do you achieve it?

Thanks

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