[Imc-drupal-dev] how long ... how much traffic ... how many nodes

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Sofia JarrinT wrote:
> How long would you say would it take *one* person to build an Indymedia drupal site?  And is it hard to keep up with all the module updates? Also, is hard to upgrade the site from one version to the next?

You should never have to do it all alone :) There's often a bit of life
in #drupal-dev on irc.indymedia.org; and here of course. But it only
takes a few hours to set up a basic indymedia drupal site. After that
however it depends on what you want to do with it - your collective
imagination about media types, interacting with feeds and services, how
they want to do collective moderation, get site users involved in the
site running etc. will all add to doing new stuff!

Upgrading same game... this is 5.x -> 6.x -> 7.x type upgrades not point
releases. It depends on how much you've customized and relied on
contributory modules. Point releases are rarely a problem unless you've
done strange things.

Steev Hise wrote:
> I just recently found out about Pressflow, a Drupal variant that
> supposedly solves a lot of performance issues and thought that this
> might be something other imcistas should know about:
>
> http://fourkitchens.com/pressflow-makes-drupal-scale

Yer I'm just trying that out for a new site :) and was going to suggest
it here. It's got some nice things just for making reverse proxying
easier just setting a cookie when the go to a post return page helps a
lot (!) - some notes on doing that with varnish I've written in the past
are here http://iskra.net/blog/ekes/2009/04/08/varnishing-over-drupal
but also there is stuff to make having memcaching, MySQL replication
etc. easier

At the most basic level as there are lots of anonymous users on
Indymedia sites I'd really suggest using http://drupal.org/project/boost
just to start with (some notes about having multiple caches of that also
on my blog ;)

Daniel P wrote:
> In particular, are there IMCs
> that have multiple years of content being managed by drupal, who are
> finding it scale well?

In terms of scaling with number of nodes I've not seen anyone struggling
at all yet. Search sucks though - in terms of results as well as
processing power. I've put in for a vserver on a box that should be
available soon. The intention is for it to do a Indymedia / related
network (in the first case Drupal only) Solr install - no logging etc.
of course. So if that comes off I'll let everyone know :)

ekes

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