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**RUD_Lee** · 05-24-2007, 07:06 AM

I'd just like to share my experience of using Drupal.

I was running a site for my friend's pop group on a 1&1 shared server and was all fine. They then entered a tv talent show (with around 10 million viewers) and a banner was held up showing the site's url and uv's went through the roof. Site was shut down almost instantly for using too many resources which is understandable, but then moved between several dedicated servers (visits had dropped to around 10,000 pv's a day by now) and the site was running at a snail's pace. Seemed to be something to do with Drupal's caching but even when I turned it off it still didn't speed up much.

After a couple of weeks, with the same amount of daily pv's, I migrated to Joomla and site has been running fine ever since.

So, from my experience I would say if you get a high number of daily visits to definitely avoid Drupal. Quite a few ppl on their support forums complained that it couldn't handle high traffic volumes but I think theonion.com seemed to have no problems with it though.

05-24-2007, 07:06 AM	#23 (permalink)
RUD_Lee DNF Newbie Last Online: 08-01-2008 05:15 AM iTrader: (8) Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 14 DNF$: 3,731 Location: UK Country:	Re: Easiest most flexible CMS to use? I'd just like to share my experience of using Drupal. I was running a site for my friend's pop group on a 1&1 shared server and was all fine. They then entered a tv talent show (with around 10 million viewers) and a banner was held up showing the site's url and uv's went through the roof. Site was shut down almost instantly for using too many resources which is understandable, but then moved between several dedicated servers (visits had dropped to around 10,000 pv's a day by now) and the site was running at a snail's pace. Seemed to be something to do with Drupal's caching but even when I turned it off it still didn't speed up much. After a couple of weeks, with the same amount of daily pv's, I migrated to Joomla and site has been running fine ever since. So, from my experience I would say if you get a high number of daily visits to definitely avoid Drupal. Quite a few ppl on their support forums complained that it couldn't handle high traffic volumes but I think theonion.com seemed to have no problems with it though.