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// $Id: USERS.txt,v 1.1.2.1.2.5 2008/10/23 19:41:25 arto Exp $
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This lists some of the users of Boost, describing the setup of the website
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in question as well as providing rationale on how Boost benefits the site.
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It is hoped that the cases described here may serve as useful guides for new
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Boost users evaluating how to best implement static caching on their site.
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Stand Against Poverty <http://www.standagainstpoverty.org>
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United Nations campaign website used to organize events and report event
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attendance for events at which nearly 117 million people worldwide
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participated. The events seek to raise awareness about poverty and
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highlight effort around the United Nations Millennium Development Goals
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that seek toward reducing global poverty. The website runs on a cluster
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of 4 load-balanced Apache web servers and a single database server.
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Boost is used to reduce the overall resource usage consumed by anonymous
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visitors on the site in order to devote more infrastructure resources
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toward event organizers who sign in as authenticated users to create
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events and report event attendance tallies. The Stand Against Poverty
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site is is 4 languages, and uses the i18n module. Boost was used with
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this patch http://drupal.org/node/174380#comment-663794 to allow for the
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use of Boost on i18n sites. While there is still a substantial amount of
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traffic on the website during the 3 day campaign, the impact of
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anonymous traffic (which includes all traffic, until users sign in) is
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greatly reduced.
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Hosting infrastructure for StandAgainstPoverty.org provided by the good
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folks at http://www.advomatic.com
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Development Seed writes more about the campaign on their blog at:
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http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2008/oct/22/united-nations-uses-drupal-huge-anti-poverty-event
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http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2008/oct/23/improving-drupals-performance-boost-module-uns-millennium-campaign
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Environmental Working Group <http://www.ewg.org/>
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The Environmental Working Group (EWG) uses the power of public
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information to protect public health and the environment. Boost is used
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to cache all public-facing pages on the site (13,000+ and counting) and
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has been critical in sustaining EWG's large amounts of traffic since the
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site relaunched using Drupal in early 2007. EWG frequently receives
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traffic from multiple press outlets on a given day and Boost allows EWG
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to manage its infrastructure in-house and at a fraction of the price
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that would otherwise be required.
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Arto Bendiken <http://bendiken.net/>
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Personal website of the author. Boost is used to cache virtually every
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page on the site, quite significantly improving response times despite
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the sometimes sluggish shared hosting the site runs on. An additional
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benefit provided by Boost is that when the backend MySQL database server
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goes down, as happens now and then, the site still keeps on trucking
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instead of just showing the Drupal database error page (dynamic features
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such as posting comments obviously don't work until MySQL access is
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restored, however).
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If you would like to add your website to this list, please contact the
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author at http://drupal.org/user/26089/contact, describing your site and
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setup. Try to keep the description to a paragraph or two, and don't forget
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to include your name and the URL to your website. Note that additions to
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this list are posted at the author's sole discretion, and submissions may be
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abridged or edited for grammar.
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