<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Sat Mar 21, 2009, at 8:21 am, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">However, there are four firms I'm aware of with specific focus on scalability:<br> <br> <a href="http://www.tag1consulting.com/" target="_blank">http://www.tag1consulting.com/</a> - "LAMP Performance and Scalability<br> Experts" tap into experience running <a href="http://drupal.org" target="_blank">drupal.org</a> and several other<br> large scale sites to help their customers. Also have some good<br> resources (patches, articles) on their site.<br> <br> <a href="http://fourkitchens.com/" target="_blank">http://fourkitchens.com/</a> - Pressflow is their distribution of Drupal<br> which has extra patches to make it perform/scale better in a MySQL<br> only environment. They also provide advice on hardware/software for<br> scalability.<br> <br> <a href="http://www.workhabit.com/products/elastic2" target="_blank">http://www.workhabit.com/products/elastic2</a> - Provide services around<br> scalable Drupal in Amazon's cloud, and historically have offered<br> consulting on making Drupal scalable elsewhere as well.<br> <br> Acquia - nothing generally available yet, but Dries mentioned in the<br> 2009 roadmap that they will offer a product code-named "Fields" to<br> help people scale Drupal on Amazon's web service infrastructure -<br> <a href="http://buytaert.net/acquia-2009-roadmap" target="_blank">http://buytaert.net/acquia-2009-roadmap</a> They are probably offering a<br> closed beta of this now - contact a sales rep if interested in trying<br> it out.<br> <br> </blockquote><div>And <a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a><br><br><a href="http://2bits.com/articles/drupal-performance-tuning-and-optimization-for-large-web-sites.html">http://2bits.com/articles/drupal-performance-tuning-and-optimization-for-large-web-sites.html</a><br> <br></div></div><a href="http://2bits.com/services/drupal-performance-assessment-tuning-and-optimization.html">http://2bits.com/services/drupal-performance-assessment-tuning-and-optimization.html</a></blockquote><div><br></div>And pingVision (though we haven't been blogging about it, really - <a href="http://pingv.com/services/drupal-deployment-scaling-performance-tuning)">http://pingv.com/services/drupal-deployment-scaling-performance-tuning)</a></div><div><br></div><div>Laura</div></body></html>