S3 static site module

Posted by andy tawse on May 21, 2013 at 1:20pm

Hi,

I wanted to get feedback about whether releasing our module sounds like a good idea.

Our company has developed a module that publishes static Drupal nodes to S3 as they are saved or during a full site crawl. We've used this on a few projects where there is a need to cope with large traffic spikes (e.g. websites that support TV broadcasts) and where the content is relatively simple but there is still a need for content management. So quite niche but hopefully useful to some.

I've had a good look and can't find anything that does the same. The Boost module, which was our inspiration in some ways, didn't provide exactly what we needed - complete separation from Drupal (never hitting it) and the Boost module crawler is deprecated.

There's more detailed information here http://numiko.com/labs/2012/12/static-drupal-sites-for-high-traffic/

A future improvement could be to allow destinations for the static files other than S3 (pluggable modules).

thanks
Andy

Categories: high performance, static content

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High Traffic related with Performance, sounds very interesting!

Posted by dydave on May 22, 2013 at 10:38am

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Hi Andy,

Thanks a lot for your contribution and letting us know about this module, it certainly sounds like a great idea.

Just a quick reply to suggest you might consider cross posting this page in the High Performance DUG, I would surely be interested in hearing if any guys in this group would have additional ideas, experiences or questions.

Future evolutions surely sound very promising.
Thanks!

Hi @Andy, Thanks for

Posted by jygastaud on May 27, 2013 at 10:21am

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Hi @Andy,

Thanks for feedback.
I think your module can be very helpful and it will be great if you share it.

Once done, you can update the page "Creating a static archive of a Drupal site" on wiki : http://drupal.org/node/27882

As an alternative to your project, I saw (but never tested yet) the "Save to FTP project" : http://drupal.org/project/savetoftp which looks to have an S3 option.