Talking Drupal #134 - Highly Available Drupal

In Episode #134 we talk about Highly Available websites with
Drupal.
Show Notes

Defining what we mean by high availability and defining
availability with a customer.

High availability scenarios - “Today Show Affect”

Traffic patterns and history, understanding your customers
needs and schedules

How to determine if a customer needs high availability

Implementing high availability - single points of failure,
components of HA and overview of strategies

How to learn more about HA website implementations

Checkout Digital Ocean and Amazon AWS for learning and
playing

HA is not point and click… heavy DEVOPS



HA Drupal providers

Acquia and Pantheon



Disaster recovery (a future show is needed for this)

Module of the Week

https://www.drupal.org/project/christmas_lights


A splendid module with Christmas lights decoration that creates
long lasting atmosphere of X-mas for you and the users of your
website.
Bonus Content

Mark Meier from Load Impact joins Nic and Stephen to demonstrate
Load Testing with his product Load Impact. Mark has provided a
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Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross


John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi


Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan