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- eaton, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Having worked on a number of large drupal installations, I can say that it scales fine when you write a check and drop in a new DB server, dedicated memcached box, and a couple front-ends. The majority of the difficulties have tracked back to a volunteer teem of server administrators working on donated hardware without a lot of control over the server configuration. That's being worked on. In the meantime, drupal.org's main server does about a TB of traffic per day.
The recent formation of the Drupal Association ended up raising a fair chunk of money for hardware, and the wheels that must turn have begun to do so. More ram is being dumped into the various boxes, additional servers are being configured, and so on. It moves slower, though, than the large companies some of us have worked with. With Sony, for example, a TB of traffic is met with a check being written rather than a round of discussions about how to raise money. :-) - eaton, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1digg cut me off while I was fixing a typo. That's 'A TB of traffic per month.' ;) Not per day. Heh.
The OSOUL has been a HUGE aid to the Drupal community, donating server space for a large very high-traffic site that's very demanding. They work within the limitations of what they can effectively manage on their budget, though, and it's harder for them than a company that can treat five new servers etc as an investment.
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