Blocking referrer spam, mal-bots, and other malicious weasels with htaccess
Anyone who runs a site/server for very long will likely find out about the gruesome underbelly of the online work - spammers. They come in many shapes and sizes (most are bots), and with different...
View ArticlePrepare your Drupal site to be Slashdotted, Dugg, and Farked - Part II
It's been a couple weeks since we posted part one of our look at optimizing a Drupal site to withstand large amounts of traffic, and since that time it happened again - a site we host, got "Farked" (an...
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High traffic: Serving 500,000+ unique visitors in 24 hours and over a...
Recently a client we helped get started with Drupal and admin their backend systems for, had their first 500,000+ unique-visitors day.Everything went well, the lessons we've learned over the years of...
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Scaling Drupal: Benchmarking static file serving with lighttpd and browser...
I finally had a chance to investigate an optimization which I've been wondering about for a while now - serving static files of a site from somewhere else. As a side, but related, experiment I also...
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