By coastalfog on

I am in the process of looking for a solution for a site that i'm in charge of rebuilding. This site currently has 34,000 subscribers and gets an average of 60,000 unique hits per day. I am wondering if Drupal can handle this type of load anybody with experience that they can share would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Cris Mitchell

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killes@www.drop.org commented

Drupal can handle that if your infrastructure can. There are a number of high traffic Drupal sites that run with loadbalancers, multiple web frontends, and a database cluster as the backend.
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theichurch commented

Drupal can handle this if you have the back end to support it. There are ways to optimize Drupal so it can run as efficiently as possible.

There are, also, things to consider such as the use of MyISAM tables or InnoDB tables if you use mysql. If there are a lot of writes then InnoDB tables will give you a performance increase.

In the end if you have the infrastructure it can and has been done with sites that big.