Agaric Design Collective

Site expecting more traffic and the built-in Drupal response

By Benjamin Melançon
on 12 Nov
0 comments

Description

A typical (well, sort of) heads up that a site will be under heavier load, and our minimal (very minimal) scaling precautions using Drupal's standard features.

Hey fellow media revolutionaries, I just wanted to let you know we'll
see an increased load on http://saveournet.ca today and likely for the
next couple weeks. I just launched a campaign.

It could be very big, but I've been known to over estimate this stuff.

At any rate please take any extra precautions you can to avoid a crash
in the middle of the campaign etc...

thanks,
Steve

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Resolution

Agaric wrote back:

Hello Steve,

I turned on page caching for anonymous users for the site, and set the minimum cache lifetime to 5 minutes.

This means that new content you add could take up to 5 minutes to show up for visitors. If that's too long for this campaign let us know.

Thanks,

benjamin

Agaric Design Collective
Open Source Free Software Web Development
http://agaricdesign.com/

 

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