Mullenweg: Scale WordPress to 20,000,000 Views per Day for $100 p/month

Posted by Aaron D. Campbell | Monday, December 8th, 2008 | 4 Comments
Automattic, Drupal, Drupal Community, Links, web, WordPress

An interesting article appeared on the front page of the drupal.org website, detailing the migration of the popular “crooks and liars” blog from WordPress to Drupal. According to the developers, when the site was averaging around the “200,000 hits per day mark, we started experiencing a lot of down time from server overloads. We were utilizing the famous wp-cache plugin for WordPress, as well as hosting the database on a single master and two slaves, using the HyperDB class for WordPress to handle the replication.” After experiencing a high degree of server downtime from the massive number of comments on the site, “crooks and liars” began to consider porting the site to Drupal for performance issues.

According to the site development team, benchmark tests showed that a Drupal 5.x installation was able to serve more than 8 times the number of pages per second vs. a standard WordPress 2.3 set up:

“I setup default installations of WordPress 2.3 and Drupal 5. I only enabled the core caching mechanisms in both setups and populated them with the exact same data and display options. Both systems also used the default themes and features. After running a series of tests through JMeter, I quickly confirmed my beliefs and even exceeded them as I saw Drupal was able to handle about eight times the requests per second as WordPress, both on the front page and the same single post view with 157 comments.”

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101 Quick Links for SEO

Posted by Jeffrey Scott -TypeHost Web Development | Friday, September 5th, 2008 | 20 Comments
directory listings, Links, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, social bookmarking sites

This list contains 101 sites that are recommended for building incoming links to a site for SEO. Social Bookmarking sites are listed first, as they have a better overall page rank and build more organic traffic. The directory listings have been filtered to remove any sites that require reciprocal links or paid memberships. When doing SEO work a lot of time is wasted in going through the steps to submit a link referral to a site, only to find they charge a fee or will not permit a link submission without a reciprocal link on your homepage. These sites all allow free submissions and are a great way to build 101 quick links to your site.