[consulting] Successful large enterprise deployments of Drupal

[Boris Mann]

On 12/13/05, Michael Haggerty <mhaggerty at trellon.com> wrote:


Something I am not real hot on right now is clustering. A lot of people look
> at it as the big solution for drupal scalability, but I think it's
> overkill
> until you exceed certain thresholds. For instance, with one of our larger
> sites, we hit over 1 million page views a month using a P4 dual processor
> system with a minimal amount of RAM.


You're right...clustering is not the be all and end all of scalability, but
it does offer other benefits around redundancy and failover. But a single
8-way Sun  box is going to look pretty good, too.

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