Presentation: 3.4 Million page views per day, 92 million per month, one...
Earlier today, I presented at DrupalCamp Toronto about 3.4 million page views a day, 92 million per month, one server and Drupal. As promised, the slides are attached, as a PDF for everyone's reference.
View ArticlePresentation: Drupal Camp Toronto 2011 Web Site Performance Optimization and...
Together with Alan Dixon of Black Fly Solutions, Khalid Baheyeldin of 2bits.com, Inc. gave a presentation on Web Site Performance, Optimization and Scalability at Drupal Camp 2011. The slides from the...
View ArticlePodcast: Khalid Baheyeldin on Drupal Performance
Khalid of 2bits.com, Inc, was interviewed by Modules Unraveled, on Drupal Performance.
View ArticleBotnet hammering web site causing outages
We had a site for a client that was stable for close to two years, then suddenly started to experience switches from the master to the geographically separate slave server as frequently as twice a...
View ArticleYet another Denial of Service (DoS) attack
We recently wrote on a botnet attack hammering web site causing outages. In the past few days, we have seen another Denial of Service attack on a client's site. The symptoms were a complete outage of...
View ArticleAbuse Drupal Best Practices at your own peril: Poor Performance
In the Drupal community, we always recommend using the Drupal API, and best practices for development, management and deployment. This is for many reasons, including modularity, security and...
View ArticleWhen boost slows down your Drupal site ...
The Boost is often a great help with speeding up web sites of small to medium size and/or hosted on shared hosts. It works by writing the entire cached page to a disk file, and serving it entirely from...
View ArticleDrupal 7.x and Pressflow pitfalls can reduce your site's performance
Over the past few years, we were called in to assist clients with poor performance of their site. Many of these were using Pressflow, because it is "faster" and "more scalable" than Drupal 6.x....
View ArticlePresentation: Drupal Performance and Scalability: What you need to know
Today, Khalid gave a presentation on Drupal Performance and Scalability for members of the London (Ontario) Drupal Users Group. The slides from the presentation are attached below.
View ArticleCommon Issues and Solutions for Dealing with Cloud Computing and VPS...
The bulk of Drupal hosting for clients that we deal with is on virtual servers, whether they are marketed as "cloud" or not. Many eventually have to move to dedicated servers because increased traffic...
View ArticleHigh server load because of repeating queries too many times
One of the suboptimal techniques that developers often use, is a query that retrieves the entire content of a table, without any conditions or filters. For example: SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY...
View ArticleNode creation and editing slow in Internet Explorer? Here is a solution ...
A client recently asked us for help with a very specific issue. The node edit page was hanging up, but only in Internet Explorer 10, and not in Firefox or Chrome. The client had WYSIWYG editor enabled....
View ArticleAnother botnet spamming Drupal web sites, causing performance issues
We previously wrote in detail about how botnets hammering a web site can cause outages. Here is another case that emerged in the past month or so. Again, it is a distributed attempt from many IP...
View Article2bits.com Presenting on Drupal Performance at DrupalCamp Toronto
Khalid of 2bits.com Inc. will be presenting Drupal Performance Tips and Tricks at DrupalCamp Toronto 2014 this coming Friday May 2nd at Humber College, Lakeshore Campus. See you all there ...
View ArticlePresentation: Drupal Performance Tips and Tricks
On Friday May 2nd, 2014, Khalid of 2bits.com, Inc. presented on Drupal Performance. The presentation covered important topics such as: Drupal misconception: Drupal is slow/resource hog/bloated Drupal...
View ArticleImprove Your Drupal Site Performance While Reducing Your Hosting Costs
We were recently approached by a non-profit site that runs on Drupal. Major Complaints Their major complaint was that the "content on the site does not show up". The other main complain is that the...
View ArticleHigh Performance Drupal with Apache MPM Worker Threaded Server and PHP-FPM
In a previous article from over 5 years ago, we advocated the use of Apache MPM Worker Threaded Server with fcgid over Apache's mod_php. That was for serveral reasons, including faster handling of...
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