Taking advantage of Nginx’s direct Memcache integration by delivering Drupal pages from cache - even for authenticated users.

There are many ways to improve the performance & scalability of Drupal. Comparison of a selection of performance and scalability modules.

Lifetime Digital case study highlights the proven scalability and performance of Drupal websites in a high traffic environment. By utilizing Akamai technology for caching of rich media and for anonymous users, Lifetime Digital’s 6 Drupal sites have proven successful in supporting 50 million page views per month.

As anyone who has developed a Drupal site with devel module’s query logging on can tell you, a Drupal implementation can quickly get out of control when it comes to hammering the database.