Index: USERS.txt =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/drupal-contrib/contributions/modules/boost/USERS.txt,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -u -p -r1.1 USERS.txt --- USERS.txt 25 Nov 2006 14:24:05 -0000 1.1 +++ USERS.txt 23 Oct 2008 19:03:05 -0000 @@ -22,3 +22,28 @@ abridged or edited for grammar. such as posting comments obviously don't work until MySQL access is restored, however). + Stand Against Poverty + United Nations campaign website used to organize events and report event + attendance for events at which nearly 117 million people worldwide + participated. The events seek to raise awareness about poverty and highlight + effort around the United Nations Millennium Development Goals that seek + toward reducing global poverty. The website runs on a cluster of 4 load- + balanced Apache web servers and a single database server. Boost is used + to reduce the overall resource usage consumed by anonymous visitors on the + site in order to devote more infrastructure resources toward event + organizers who sign in as authenticated users to create events and report + event attendance tallies. The Stand Against Poverty site is is 4 languages, + and uses the i18n module. Boost was used with this patch + http://drupal.org/node/174380#comment-663794 to allow for the use of Boost + on i18n sites. While there is still a substantial amount of traffic on the + website during the 3 day campaign, the impact of anonymous traffic (which + includes all traffic, until users sign in) is greatly reduced. + + Hosting infrastructure for StandAgainstPoverty.org provided by the good folks + at http://www.advomatic.com + + Development Seed writes more about the campaign on their blog at + http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2008/oct/22/united-nations-uses-drupal-huge-anti-poverty-event + and + http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2008/oct/23/improving-drupals-performance-boost-module-uns-millennium-campaign + \ No newline at end of file