By kharbat on

Hi there,

I'm posting my website as a showcase for Drupal and i'm also looking for help regarding performance. As i'm little bit disappointed of Drupal.

ShooFeeTV is a content provider and aggregator of Arab satellite channel listings. In addition to centralizing the times and channels for more than 120 channels on ArabSat and NileSat, the original content includes programming and who's who information, video clips, photographs and celebrity news.

ShooFeeTV's vision is to create an entertainment hub accessible across the Arab world and beyond. Plans are underway to include a free-to-air satellite television channel, mobile phone services, podcasts and content syndication through third-party feeds to the electronic and printed media.

The multi-media platforms suit the expansive site, one that is also supported by a database of entertainment information. With 100,000 entries already and increasing every day, users can search for their favorite films, actors and other trivia with a click of the mouse.

Users will also have the chance to express their opinions by rating and reviewing their favorite shows and movies.
The most popular will be highlighted on the home page.
In short, ShooFeeTV will revolutionize the way the Arab world sees television.

We have developed the first version of ShooFeeTV using codeigniter framework which was really good, however and at a certain point we started to feel like we're re-inventing the wheel. Drupal is already there and it does most of the things we're planning to do. Therefore we decided to migrate to Drupal 6.

Now and after 3 months of Drupal development we got ShooFeeTV 2.0 up and running. But unfortunately we're not really satisfied with the performance. The website is very slow and inconvenient. The database is large like 4.0 GB of data but still i think many website out there are much much bigger. and still running well.

I'd like to consult the experts so please if anyone feels capable to help, please send me back.

Regards,
Ahmad Kharbat

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

You might want to mention your hosting environment.

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abed.abudhair commented

Dear Sir

Our environment details is:
OS: Linux Debian 4.0
Apache: 2.2.3
PHP: 5.2.0
Database: MySQL 5.0.32

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neocisco commented

As I said, pretty impressive. How did you make the programming grid? I´m trying to do something like it for a project I´m planning to do and would really appreciate any clues you may give me about it.
Thanks a lot in advance.

Francisco Pezzente

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kharbat commented

Hi Francisco,

Please check this post: http://drupal.org/node/530028

toma’s picture

toma commented

Hi

Nice work, i notice some slow load of pages! did you try using any cache modules, or cache solutions!!!?

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kharbat commented

Hi there,

Well, after researches and some experiments we noticed that the slowness was mainly caused by some irrelevant rule in the firewall (weird issue). However we used different approaches to increase the performance. Like memache, css and javascript optimization, static http server for images and static content.

The website is functioning very well nowadays and i expect Drupal performance to get much better when version 7.0 is released.