DrupalCon Paris 2009: Performance and High Availability

Performance and High Availability best practices

Barry Jaspan (Acquia), Narayan Newton (Tag1 Consulting), David Strauss, Amazon, killes, Damien Tournoud (AF83)
SESSION: http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/performance-and-high-availability...
SLIDES:
VIDEO: http://www.archive.org/details/PerformanceandHighAvailabilitybestpractices

• High Availability
  • Example: Michael Jackson's website
• 2 load balancers
• 1 web node
• 1 master/passive database set up
• Performance
  • Drupal caching puts a lot of load on databases
  • Try also
    • Memcache
    • Cache Router
• InnoDB is faster
• Monitoring
  • Clients like graphs
  • cacti for mysql