I would like to find out from anyone that has built a high traffic Drupal community website ( a website with at least 500,000 visitors a month, with anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 authenticated users at any one time ), is it is possible to create this kind of site without having to do a high level of hacking to make Drupal scale?  Can standard Drupal scale without a lot of query and other types of hacking / coding?    Can I install Drupal, configure the modules I need, and then add more hardware and functionality (APC, Varnish, Memcache, etc) without having to do query hacking?  How do people deal with Drupal's high number of database queries without hacking, or is there no way around having to hack?  If you have built this type of community site with numerous authenticated user, what were the biggest hurdles and stumbling blocks when it comes to performance and scalability?  I already know about auth cache and pressflow.
The website I'm working is allegedly going to have a massive hit rate soon after launch. The client is talking about the possibility  of around 2500 hits per second over a day or so.   Ignoring the fact that this hit rate is probably wild client optimism and apart from getting the largest servers possible, what is the best way that Drupal should be configured to support a large hit rate.  I've read Scaling the , ,  and many other pages, but what I'm looking for is real experience of doing this, what works, what doesn't, and what to expect.
How to calculate Network Service Areas in QGIS? The question is pretty straight forward. I can get the exit code of the previous command by using $?. But what exactly is it?  I don't think it is a variable, because you can't have any special characters in the name of variable other than _.  foo?foo=10   will result in the error: foo?foo=10: command not found  So if it is not a variable, what is it? Are there others like it? Wanted: question mark instead of bibtex key for missing citations (biblatex) Instead of having the citation key showing up in the document for missing references, I want to only have [?], as it is the case when using the default bibtex without biblatex. This behavior is driving me crazy, as it messes up all the formatting (especially in tables). I want to focus on writing and only later on deal with the erroneous citations.  This question is related to    and its MWE can be used. However, as pointed out beforehand, I want the question mark in the text instead of the citation key to not mess up the formatting (for missing citations). How can the Next Generation's unfamiliarity with the Borg be explained after Archer's encounter? In  Starfleet learns about a culture that we (as audience) know as The Borg. According to TNG, the Federation doesn't seem to know anything about these beings when . Although Archer's crew doesn't learn the name of the Borg, it would be reasonable that the Federation would inherit the information about such a menacing enemy and it would also be reasonable to assume the crew of the Enterprise-D to be able to match their encounter with their databases' information.  Obviously, out-of-universe the explanation is that the scripts weren't written in chronological order, but how can the apparent obliviousness about the Borg be explained in-universe? The UK Visas and Immigration Directorate publishes  that provides helpful tips that can result in successful visa applications. Section 2 of this guidance opens is entitled &quot;other documents you may want to provide&quot; (emphasis mine).  Section 2: other documents you may want to provide – all visitors This section provides guidance on the types of documents that you may want to provide to help us consider your application against the Immigration Rules. Previous travel documents/passports, which show previous travel. Financial documents showing that you have sufficient funds available.  These must clearly show that you have access to the funds, such as:  bank statements building society book proof of earnings such as a letter from employer confirming employment details (start date of employment, salary, role, company contact details) where a third party (who is either in the UK or will be legally in the UK at the time of your visit) is providing financial support to you e.g. a business, a friend or a relative, documents to show that they have sufficient resources to support you in addition to themselves and any dependant family should be provided   The first item is &quot;bank statements&quot; and this ties in with the , which says...  evidence that you can support yourself during your trip, eg bank statements or payslips from the last 6 months  (Note 'eg' is a Latin abbreviation meaning &quot;for example&quot;; this appears to be optional rather than a fixed requirement.) Question: How should someone interpret this such that the chances of success are maximized? How many statements should I submit? What are they looking for and what do my bank statements tell about me? What happens when one is affected by something such as energy drain, and permanently loses levels when one only has racial HD? Does the victim of the spell die? Or do they permanently lose racial HD? Let's say I have some data, and then I fit the data with a model (a non-linear regression). Then I calculate the R-squared ($R^2$).  When R-squared is negative, what does that mean? Does that mean my model is bad? I know the range of $R^2$ can be [-1,1]. When $R^2$ is 0, what does that mean as well? Find count of all combination of numbers whose sum is x I want to find the sum of all combination of numbers whose sum is x, for e.g.  when x = 3 f(x) = countOf(111,12,21,3) = 4 JUnit @Test expected annotation not working Find object by id in an array of JavaScript objects For the following block of code:  For I = 0 To listOfStrings.Count - 1     If myString.Contains(lstOfStrings.Item(I)) Then         Return True     End If Next Return False   The output is:  Case 1:  myString: C:\Files\myfile.doc listOfString: C:\Files\, C:\Files2\ Result: True   Case 2:  myString: C:\Files3\myfile.doc listOfString: C:\Files\, C:\Files2\ Result: False   The list (listOfStrings) may contain several items (minimum 20) and it has to be checked against a thousands of strings (like myString).  Is there a better (more efficient) way to write this code? Given 4 integers, $a, b, c, d > 0$, does $\frac{a}{b} < \frac{c}{d}$ imply $\frac{a}{b} < \frac{a+c}{b+d} < \frac{c}{d}$? Why is the light in an airplane turned off during take off and landing? Did I "get" (or "take") my degree "from" (or "in") the University of Somewhere? I would like to know what is the preferred way to indicate that I took a degree in some subject while also naming the place where I obtained the degree from:   I got my master's degree from the University of Somewhere; I got my master's degree in the University of Somewhere; I took my master's degree in the University of Somewhere.   I would say that "in" is more suitable to mention the particular subject (a degree in maths, for instance) than to indicate the place, but I still have doubts.  By the way, is it a "master's degree" or a "Master's degree"? limsup of intersection of events as a subset of intersection of limsups permission reporting on sudoers I'm looking for a good, consistent and easy way to do a report of sudoers permissions for every user and group on the system. For users, I want the report to include permissions granted via group membership. Find $\lim_{n\to \infty}({1\over \sqrt{n^2+1}}+{1\over \sqrt{n^2+2}}+\cdots+{1\over \sqrt{n^2+n}})$ strong textFind $\lim_\limits{n\to \infty}\left({1\over \sqrt{n^2+1}}+{1\over \sqrt{n^2+2}}+\cdots+{1\over \sqrt{n^2+n}}\right)$. I do know it is bounded by $1$. I tried using the sandwich rule with no success. How can I solve it? Possible Duplicate:          I installed the IE10 beta on Windows 7. It has an annoying autocorrect feature like the one in MS Word that messes up everything I write. How do I disable it? Can't Prove formula from Sakurai's Modern QM @ Perturbation Theory I am studying Perturbation Theory from J.J. Sakurai's textbook Modern Quantum Mechanics. I am having trouble proving formulas on page 299 (5.2.5) and (5.2.6) from the previous ones [mainly (5.2.4)]. Can anyone help?  This is a problem of working with perturbation theory when the non-perturbed state has degeneracy. To elaborate I do not get why $(E-H_0-\lambda P_1VP_1)$ is not singular.  More importantly is the equation below correct and if so why:  $$(E-\lambda P_1VP_1)|l \rangle = E_D^{(0)}|l \rangle $$  That is the core of my problem. If the above equation - in the framework of Sakurai's statement of the problem - is correct I can work out all the rest on my own. However I do not get why this equation would hold true. How can I get bash to perform tab-completion for my aliases? I have a bunch of bash completion scripts set up (mostly using bash-it and some manually setup).    I also have a bunch of aliases setup for common tasks like gco for git checkout. Right now I can type git checkout dTab and develop is completed for me but when I type gco dTab it does not complete.    I'm assuming this is because the completion script is completing on git and it fails to see gco.    Is there a way to generically/programmatically get all of my completion scripts to work with my aliases?  Not being able to complete when using the alias kind of defeats the purpose of the alias.