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  • AppliedTrust Goes Drupal!

    30Jun
    Author: ned Categories: Infrastructure Comments: 0

    This month, AppliedTrust re-launched our web site on the CMS called Drupal. Although the “look and feel” of the site hasn’t changed much, this upgrade has been a breakthrough in terms of both performance and manageability. I would give our previous CMS, Joomla, a grade of a B- in comparison to Drupal’s solid A. Here are six reasons why Drupal is a great fit for www.appliedtrust.com:

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    Tags: applied trust, drupal, platform security, web
  • Benchmarking Drupal on Amazon EC2

    15Mar
    Author: ned Categories: Infrastructure Comments: 2

    drupal_icon1One of the questions we often help clients answer is: which EC2 instance size provides the best performance-per-cost for a given application? I recently did some load testing with a few different sample web configurations, including a “stock” Drupal installation… here are the results:

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    Tags: cloud computing, drupal, performance

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