How we did it: 3.4 million page views per day, 92 M per month, one server!

Track: 
Implementation and Config
Experience: 
Intermediate

In this talk, Khalid of 2bits.com, Inc. will talk about a how to scale a Drupal web site with the following statistics.

  • 3.4 million pages per day peak
  • 92 million page views per month
  • 189,650 page views per hour peak
  • 840,000 visits on peak day
  • 22.96 million visits per month
  • 52,747 visits per hour peak

So far, this is the highest traffic a Drupal site gets that we heard of.

What is amazing is that this web site runs on a single mid range server ...

We will discuss how we:

  • How to tune the LAMP stack for optimal performance
  • How to make Drupal performant, yet keep things simple and maintainable
  • How to monitor the entire hardware and software stack
  • Lessons learned, do's and don'ts

2bits.com, Inc. continually assists large Drupal users with performance and scalability issues, and provides custom built performant Drupal solutions.

Intended audience: 

Drupal developers and system administrators are the main audience for this talk.

Project managers who plan large sites will also benefit from this talk.

Questions answered by this session
Question 1: 
How does simplicity vs. complexity affect performance and scalability.
Question 2: 
Do you need Pressflow, Mercury or Pantheon to scale sites?
Question 3: 
Can the cloud help me scale a site?
Question 4: 
What hardware tricks can one use to improve performance and scalability of a site.
Question 5: 
Can Drupal scale to millions of page views per day?
3.969695
Your rating: None Average: 4 (33 votes)

Comments

It was a Presentation worth Watching

I had a chance to see this presentation at drupal camp toronto and indeed it is a presentation that evey drupal development firm should watch.
Highly Recommended!!

Diamond Sponsors

 
Palantir.net
VPS NET

Platinum sponsors

 
workhabit
Trellon

Gold Sponsors

 
Duo
NorthPoint
HotDrupal.com
Microsoft
Treehouse Agency
Chapter Three
Drupal Connect