General discussion

After spending a months of evaluating different CMS solutions I can see why I probably want to invest into Drupal solution. While it's less mature in some areas (probably also because I used to work with MS/.NET) it's architecture still has a greater potential in future. Hope I'm right. At this point I would like to create a pilot and looking for hosting solutions. Now everybody wants his product to run as fast as possible. Since I'm still new to Drupal/PHP I cannot immediately identify possible Drupal bottlenecks.
At first I assumed Drupal is DB centric solution. Which means MySql is in most cases the major bottleneck (improve DB - application will fly). But after installing simple profiler I found no significant load on DB while it still took 4-5 seconds for application to react. In my .NET/SQLServer/Oracle local environment I used to have instantaneous reaction. Which made me rethink my initial assumption. Is Drupal actually File System-centric? Is bootstrap process goes through folders when loading modules or queries database repo to get modules list? If first is true then to have better performance we probably need a really good disk array to hold application files (some SCSI RAID-5 probably using SSDs). Which leads me to another question - where to host all this
- Having your own servers (a lot of extras - UPSs, Line, 24/7 support, etc. - whole new business)

Hi everyone,

Hope you all have a great Christmas and tear yourselves away from the PC to enjoy a nice lunch and time with your families!

:)

Sam.

Hello, drupal community! I had used drupal years ago, and i liked it much. It was my favorite cms because of its simplicity and power. I had too many technical issues to solve and i was frustrated so i moved to joomla for some time. At the past 2 years i dropped joomla and i only work with wordpress and thematic theme framework with only minor issues.

I HATE being that guy who posts stupid questions that have been asked a thousand times, but I can't find the answer using search and I'm tired of clicking "next."

I have a Drupal site I have managed for a few years....basically, I have about 1000 locations throughout our general city area....a person will click day, and quadrant location...but, many people from out of town have no idea of what quadrant they are in....so, is the a module whereas they could type in their local address and it would spit out a bunch of listings based on the optional circumference they choose?

Thanks in advance.

PS...it is sort of a discreet faith based site so I am not posting the link.

Hey, I'm looking for recommendations for a D7 theme.
The site in question is a resume/brochure website. It doesn't have much - just a landing page, a portfolio, some references, and a blog. I want a simple and complete theme. HTML5 is a plus. No preference whether it's fluid or fixed-width.

Any suggestions? Thanks!