By ultrajet on

A friend of mine needs easier management of pages. He currently uses HTML to write articles in his website. The thing is it's got 10k+ visits per month and they expect the figure to increase exponentially. Also, SEO is important here. They are using a shared hosting environment. They have an idea that their site is going close to overload, so they may upgrade soon.

Is drupal the right choice. If so, will VPS be enough? About how much RAM and processor speed would your recommend for this.

Thanks

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Giraffical’s picture

Giraffical commented

> Is drupal the right choice.

If he's willing to learn how to use it, sure it is. :)

> If so, will VPS be enough?

Should be. A good shared host could even handle that. 10K is not SO much.

> About how much RAM and processor speed would your recommend for this.

Try the smallest first and see if it works OK.

sammyg’s picture

sammyg commented

Drupal is a content management system, so yes, your friend will find Drupal a much better way to manage content than hand-coded HTML or such. However, like all new things, he will need to invest some time into learning Drupal to get the best out of it.

At 10k pageviews and increasing, he really should be looking at some sort of dedicated hosting. There is some great stuff going on when it comes to scalability and performance. In particular, there is a high-performance 'Drupal as a service' type offering on its way:
http://getpantheon.com/news/pantheon-demonstration-screencast

There are pre-built images of the Pantheon project available for Linode and AWS (probably more) as all the code is open source :-)

If you set up APC, Memcached, Varnish, Apache Solr and such (this is the 'core' of the Pantheon project) then you will be able to serve many more pages for a given server size; Drupal will still use greater resources than plain HTML but with the benefit of greater features, flexibility and so forth.