Drupal Scalability and Infrastructure "best practices"

Submitted by mcm30114 on Tue, 04/03/2007 - 04:50.

I've been scurrying all over Google to help find information on how to make a Drupal Site really handle some traffic. I know that the ONION and the Firefox sites might be considered as large sites, but I'm looking for information on how to make the sites scale to have 500-1000 simultaneous users, handle about 500,000 to 1,000,000 hits per day and be able to support more of a community functionality rather than just a publish out site.

I haven't been able to find any relevant information on making Drupal "bigger" .. any thoughts?

Thanks in advance

- Mike

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I haven't faced that problem head on..yet

Submitted by mal on Sun, 04/15/2007 - 06:45.

But I see it coming. So I'm very interested in the solution.

Only right now I am still focused on learning how to build sites that do what I want them to do...

Have you seen these?

Submitted by bbenone on Mon, 04/09/2007 - 18:52.

There was a pretty good seminar on this from the guys at lullabot at DrupalCon last month.

Check out:
http://www.lullabot.com/articles/performance_and_scalability_seminar_sli...
and
http://drupal.org/node/134670

Hope that helps some...