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Crowdfunding Platform For Drupal Development Launches

Posted by timothy on from the not-just-a-money-laundering-scheme-any-more dept.

angry tapir writes "A team of developers has launched a new crowdfunding platform — Drupalfund.us — that's designed to help accelerate development work on the open-source Drupal CMS, as well as potentially fund new training material and other projects of interest to community members. I had a long-ish chat to one of the co-founders about the goals of the platform and how crowdfunding can be used to push forward open source development."

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  2. Re:Drupal sucks. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Drupal is capable of handling high traffic, if you spend a large amount of money on hardware, especially MySQL servers, and cache the hell out of everything.

    FTFY. I say that as someone who's dealt with Drupal performance issues for nearly a decade.

  3. Re:Drupal sucks. by Zedrick · · Score: 3, Informative

    I also work for a hosting company, and Drupal is not a problem (unlike Joomla, for example). Not even for slashdotted sites. Oh, we also use drupal for our own (very high traffic) main site.

  4. Re:Drupal sucks. by cute-boy · · Score: 2, Informative

    First, they are serving content from a varnish cache. That is how they cope with the load. Which is fine for anonymous users, but it's not really Drupal handling the load.

    Drupal sucks badly for personalised content. Just look at the simple advice myphpadmin gives to see how badly it's tables are indexed by default, or it's own 'devel' module to see just how long some of those queries to it's own caching system (mysql backed) take.

    Keep throwing hardware at it and it comes good (at a price). So do most things.

    HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
        HTTP/1.1 200 OK
        Content-Length: 68471
        Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
        X-Drupal-Cache: HIT
        P3P: CP="NON DSP COR ADM DEV IVA OTPi OUR LEG"
        X-Varnish: 403065529
        X-AH-Environment: prod
        X-PF-Uncompressing: 1
        ETag: "1379926554-0"
        Expires: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 08:57:06 GMT
        Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache
        Pragma: no-cache
        Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 08:57:06 GMT
        Connection: keep-alive