Drupal is one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) and is used increasingly in high-visibility sites, such as www.whitehouse.gov. This has brought a lot of attention on how to get the most performance out of Drupal and how to improve the availability of such sites. In this blog series I'll take you through the basics and on through to designing your own HA Drupal site.

But first, we need to understand what the challenges are in getting Drupal (or indeed any CMS) working on multiple servers in such a way as to ensure high availability and performance.

SkySQL & Monty Program’s MariaDB Team coming to a city near you!

World’s leading MySQL database development & support experts reunite

We’re also co-sponsoring the Red Hat Tour 2013 in Amsterdam this week

SkySQL named one of the 2013 Top 100 Europe Winners by Red Herring

We were delighted last week to find out that we’d been named one of the ‘2013 Top 100 Europe’ winning companies by the Red Herring editorial team. Congratulations to all companies involved!

Join in our Finnish ritual, next Friday, at the closing of MySQL & Cloud Database Solutions Day after Percona Live!

Join us next Friday in Santa Clara for a free day of learning and fun from the SkySQL & MariaDB gang & their partners

We’re proud to announce that Jim Tommaney, CTO of Calpont, has just signed on to speak at the MySQL & Cloud Database Solutions Day, hosted by SkySQL and MariaDB - taking place next Friday, April 26, directly after Percona Live: MySQL Conference & Expo.

Finish off the day and week with Continuent-sponsored Biergarten!

Stick around one more day for the 2nd Annual MySQL & Cloud Database Solutions Day, hosted by SkySQL and MariaDB

Tokutek Technical Lead, Gerry Narvaja, among list of experts at free event hosted by SkySQL and MariaDB

Check out who’s talking, and about what, at our annual event on all things MySQL, MariaDB and Cloud - straight after Percona Live!

As we mentioned earlier this week, we’re gearing up for Percona Live: MySQL Conference and Expo in a few weeks.