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VPS.NET Managing Director Nick Nelson will clear up all the confusion of cloud hosting in this 45 minute session. Discussing how web hosting has gradually introduced coud hosting and just how cloud hosting differs from shared hosting and dedicated hosting.
Learn why your website deserves cloud hosting, all the reliability and redundancy it brings to the table. Are you limited to linux in the cloud? Can you do windows? Does cloud hosting mean your site is spread across the world? What's CDN and how does it affect the cloud?

Come and take a look behind the scenes of Propeople, a leading Drupal company with offices in five companies on two continents. Propeople team is going to reveal confidential in-house tips and tricks to make your Drupal website 1000x faster and 100x better. Propeople will share their Drupal development know-how and will show it in action on some of their most complex websites. Be the first to see it!

Case study will include detailed information about one of the largest Drupal websites in Denmark: FDM.dk and UNICEF.dk

In this session, Acquia co-founder and CTO Dries Buytaert will walk through Acquia's newest products, Drupal Commons and Drupal Gardens. Dries and team will give demonstrations of both products and discuss how Acquia is building these products and others to make it easier for enterprises to succeed with Drupal. This session is intended for people using or considering Drupal for new sites and applications, as well as partners and Drupal development shops seeking to understand how to work with Acquia.

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Doing Drupal sites on Windows has never been easy and using SQL Server was impossible. Microsoft is changing that with support for SQL Server in Drupal 7 and a new product called Web Matrix which makes it easy to build and host Drupal on Windows. In this session we’ll show off our new open source PDO_SQLSRV Driver and the new SQL Server Contributed Module created by Commerce Guys. We’ll then show you how easy Drupal is on Windows using WebMatrix. We’ll start with a brand new drop of Drupal, stand it up and deploy to a Windows host in just minutes.

The Trellon team will present a case study of scalability and performance in Drupal, explaining the specific techniques our team used to handle massive spikes in traffic on short notice. For background, a case study about the project is available at http://www.trellon.com/project/earth-day-network. This site was unique, in that it was supporting a personalized web site with geocoded content, iPhone application and Facebook application. All of these components became extremely popular all at once, with links to the site coming in from the front page of Google and the iPhone app store.