Download - Tuning Drupal for Scale and Performance
Tuning Drupal for Scale and Performance
What is scaling?
It’snotaboutHowFast
• How Much
• How Much
It’sallaboutCapacity
What can scale...
What can scale...
Drupal
What can scale...
DrupalYour Code
What can scale...
DrupalYour Code
Server
What can scale...
DrupalYour Code
ServerArchitecture
Scaling Drupal
• Module bloat• Index optimization• MySQL Engine Selection• Cache
Caching
Built-in caching
Caching
Built-in caching
Caching
73%
Built-in caching
CSS Aggregation
Caching
Built-in caching
CSS Aggregation
Block Cache
Caching
Built-in caching
CSS Aggregation
Block Cache
Advanced Cache
Caching
Built-in caching
CSS Aggregation
Block Cache
Advanced Cache
Boost
Caching
Scaling your install
• Load testing• Code performance• Query optimization
Drupal Infrastructure
• Memcached • Caching proxy• Scale Databases out• Offload static content– Content Delivery Network– Second lightweight web server– S3
Opcode Caches
GraphfromDriesBuytaert
Server Tuning
• RAM• Apache Processes• Replace Apache with Nginx and FastCGI• Replace PHP with Resin• Monitoring
Resin
Hardware scaling
UP OUT
Scaling High Points
• Cache as much as possible• Tune your queries• Tune your code• Don’t install stuff you don’t need• Serve Drupal from one server, static from
another• Run an opcode cache
