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How to Size Infrastructure for a Drupal Site

Building a website with Drupal usually includes creating a custom theme to match your corporate brand, assembling the right combination of contributed modules that help create the web experience you need, and custom modules that add those extra elements that make your site stand out from your competitors. As a result, you site will have unique traffic and user interaction patterns that result in specific system resource needs. However, sizing the infrastructure for your site can sometimes be challenging and require expertise that can be hard to find. Acquia can help!

Join Acquia for this one-hour webinar where we’ll help you get a head start. We’ll share the lessons we’ve learned from successful sizing and hosting sites for hundreds of enterprise customers. Attendees will learn the best practices and tools to scope web infrastructure for optimizing their Drupal site. Some of the key takeaways are:

  • Important measurements to consider when optimizing your site
  • Common infrastructure configurations
  • Systems’ tuning recommendations to handle different workloads
  • Best practices for avoiding site outages or disruptive emergency tuning
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011
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