[consulting] Successful large enterprise deployments of Drupal

[James Walker]

On 12/14/05 11:04 AM, Boris Mann wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/13/05, *Michael Haggerty* <mhaggerty at trellon.com 
> <mailto: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.
> 

The biggest thing about "clustering" though... is that you get some 
benefits of horizontal scalability - without downtime. That's the 
biggest drawback to a single box solution, IMO (well, and general lack 
of redundancy).

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