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Running Hundreds of Sites - Scaling Drupal Horizontally

Dave Hall 14 June 2010
Type:  Not planned session

Drupal is increasingly the CMS of choice for large projects. The popularity of the platform means that developers and businesses need robust tools to manage their deployments. Last year Dave Hall developed, deployed and managed almost 2100 production Drupal 6 sites. During the presentation Dave will share the knowledge he has developed about scaling Drupal horizontally.

Drupal is increasingly the CMS of choice for large projects. The popularity of the platform means that developers and businesses need robust tools to manage their deployments.

Managing a handful of production Drupal sites is pretty straight forward. When you start deploying or trying to manage hundreds or even thousands of sites, things get complicated very quickly. Dave Hall will explain how he has used Aegir and Drupal to deploy and manage thousands of production websites.