Hi all,
I have a site which has picked up quite a lot of regular traffic in a short time. I have upgraded my servers 4 times now:
1) shared hosting
2) semi-dedicated server
3) two semi-dedicated servers
4) 1 dedicated server
5) 2 dedicated servers
This has all happened within the space of four months - you can imaging how exhausting this is for me. Frankly, my site traffic (avg 54,000 hits a day) is not so high that two extremely high quality rack mounted servers shouldn't be able to cope - but I am now having problems with them as well. The admins are suggesting that the problem is Wordpress which is causing CPU use to skyrocket. I can't barely cope when the site goes over 8 or 9 MBit.
My question then, is Drupal a viable alternative for me or will it be just as resource intensive as wordpress?
Additionally, I have tens of thousands of comments, hundreds of posts, and hundreds of registered users - can these all be migrated to Drupal?
And finally, my site is a mix of three sites - can they all be merged to have the same look and feel and share users?
They are: Main blog (which I want to be less like a blog and more like a regular site with articles updated daily), the secondary blog (which should be a basic blog for system updates and notices), and a forums (currently PHPbb.)