Sep
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| Joomla Site Making Worldwide Headlines |
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| Saturday, 08 September 2007 | |
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Ever wondered how a Joomla site would handle a Digging or Slashdotting? Pretty well it seems as one Joomla site has been part of the world's biggest news story during the last week.
The Chaser, the Australian magazine / comedy show which upstaged Bush, Howard, Hu and the rest of APEC in Sydney with their fake motorcade, runs Joomla on their main site: thechaser.com.au. They use Virtuemart, Performs, Blastchat and a Rocket Theme template.
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  written by steve, September 10, 2007
Hi Zorro - you're right there. It was a bit of a throwaway line. A client's site last week because of a Digging and I must have had that topic on my mind. For what its worth it was a Wordpress site and crashed because it was on relatively weak shared hosting.
Thats probably a very useful article there ... how to get your site ready for Digg, Reddit etc.  written by lcd plazma, June 16, 2008
oomla offers a built-in caching mechanism - but performance gains are not so impressive.
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Joomla offers a built-in caching mechanism - but performance gains are not so impressive. Those who install one of the available 3rd party caching extensions such as the Joomla Accelerate component by Joomlatwork, or PageCache, will see page loading times drop significantly, and likewise performance increase.
So, Joomla itself can - and should - be tuned to hold up better under load. But an even bigger factor is what hardware/software you're running on. Do The Chaser have a setup with loads of RAM? Is their database server on a different machine maybe, tuned properly? Do they use Apache, IIS or Lighttpd? Do they load balance? All these aspects are critical - far more critical, I think, than the CMS used, when we're talking Slashdotting.
Kind regards,
Zorro