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By Shai on
What is the reason for the slowness on the Drupal web site?
If the limitation is the cost of using/maintaining a dedicated server on a good machine with enough RAM -- can't we pass the hat to make this happen?
This community is large and growing. Drupal is awesome. It's also complex and the vitality of these forums and the web site is absolutely critical in order to make working with Drupal fun.
It also is not a good promotion for Drupal when its flagship site runs so slowly.
What can we do?
Shai
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Only search is slow for me
I find that the site is generally pretty fast, either from home (cable) or from work (??). Only when I search do I find that the results take a while to come up. And if I forgot to right-click | open in new Tab, then I have to wait again for the results to appear when I go back to the page. However, when you have 70K+ pages to search through, its bound to take a few seconds.
The speed of websites is somewhat dependent on where you are in the world. If you're right next door to the server, then usually its pretty fast. If your connection goes round the world a few times before hitting the server, you're bound to see some slowness.
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Forum
The forum also seems to take a while... about 7 seconds for the main link. Most individual pages are quite fast however, and given the volume of nodes and forum posts, I'd say performance is adequate for my needs as a developer. I would expect sites I develop with Drupal to be lower volume and faster given proper hosting.
queries
I was once told that the queries used to generate the /forums page were among the hardest hits on Drupal. I don't remember if the queries for forums pages got any optimization in 5.0 but a lot of other things did so I expect to see some perkiness when drupal.org is updated to the 5.0 code base.
In any case, drupal.org is one SUN box hosting the back end MySQL database. Two front end servers running Apache and APC. An additional system running the CVS and Mail server needs.
Drupal.org is generally just fine for me. Occasional known issues, search bot sucking up the site (usually gets banned). Random user trying to crawl the entire site, (usually gets banned).
-Steven Peck
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Drupal hardware
see:
http://drupal.org/node/29670
http://drupal.org/node/26707
The site got a major hardware upgrade a little more than a year ago, and I've seen posts about additional optimizations since then. I agree that it seems slow at times, so maybe the $3000 from PackT will provide more more or upgraded server muscle.
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Perhaps
Maybe this has something to do with it.
Approaching 100,000 Nodes
still slow
Hi,
I'm in Germany, on a fast connection, and speed is not ok, as some have mentioned here. it's horrible (slow!).
It takes sth between 10 and 30 seconds to open a node which I enter as url.
Starship-Trooper
old post
Drupal.org was subject to some aggressive crawling today. A DOS essentially. The ip addresses in question have been banned.
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide