Linked By Music is a startup from Finland aimed to create the best musicians platform for sharing and discussing music. Linked By Music also features a marketplace and a wanted board for musicians to trade equipment and join up with each other in groups.
The website is developed on Pantheon with 120 modules, redis + varnish cashing and expecting about 12000 users in its first month of opening. The website is launched in 5 different languages, english, finnish, russian, portugal and swedish.
We hope that drupal will work for them in this process for the long term.
Drupal was chosen because we needed to have a quick setup and had limited resources to build our own platform.
Pantheon was used to provide our hosting and it has proven to be a really good solution. Apache Solr and Pantheon came right out of the box.
Technical specifications
Omega was chosen as our theme because of the easy SCSS integration and mobile support.
Apache solr was chosen because we needed a quick and versatile search engine.
Spamicide helped us to get rid of 90% of our spam!
Our team consists of only 3 developers, more is needed.