high-profile drupal sites

By neko on 20 Nov 2003 at 09:49 UTC

Hey All,

We're looking at drupal here at work for more intranet work, but on a much larger scale than we've previously used it. The business wants "proof" that drupal can scale and meet the demmand of hundreds of active users each day (searching, uploading, content creating etc).

So, I'm thinking it would be nice to have some high-profile drupal site in the "real world" to show them that takes a pounding - any examples out there?

thanks,
neko

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This site

Robert Castelo commented 20 November 2003 at 10:42

The Drupal site itself is a good example - it's under heavy daily use, and has survived a Slashdotting (the ultimate test).

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Dries commented 20 November 2003 at 20:57

Last month drupal.org got 118.001 visits (1.546.160 hits) serving 714.487 pages (1.168.790 files) worth 14.744.177 KBytes of traffic. Not sure if that qualifies as high traffic.

High Profile Site

(not verified) commented 20 November 2003 at 11:55

Have a look at Ecademy.com

modified-Drupal site

(not verified) commented 20 November 2003 at 18:09

I know this site did some hacking to the drupal core, to change some functionality for it's own purposes (but isn't that what open-source is all about?)
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bertboerland commented 20 November 2003 at 20:35

http://www.kerneltrap.org/ is a high profile site, survived slashdot multiple times

http://www.deanspace.org/ does have less traffice (I quess) but has been posted on slashdot as well

kerneltrap does have a high load (i think, jeremy made the trottle module :-) ) and drupal.org has a high number of visiters as well. there i a (dated) document somewhere on drupal from jeremy regarding stresstesting, based on drupal 3.0. couldnt find the url.

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caching on the filesystem

(not verified) commented 20 November 2003 at 20:45

what ever happened to this? Jeremey wrote this for kerneltrap and in my testing it really really helped esp. for sites that are read-heavy (anonymous).