I believe the old hillbilly adage is "it aint braggin' ifn ya done it."

So on that note CONGRATULATIONS!!! on the recognition and thanks for a great site.l

ozarkpreacher wrote:
"it aint braggin' ifn ya done it."/quote]

I like that. Congrads Gram keep on braggin

very cool Gram

Like tug said,pretty dang cool.Good for ya.

Very nice Gram. What a nice surprise while reading a book. Imagine how many people benefit from your work that you haven't heard about yet. !? Congrats indeed.

On a similar note, I'd be very grateful for those cheerleader licker room photos when you get them! Lol

ozarkpreacher wrote:
I believe the old hillbilly adage is "it aint braggin' ifn ya done it."

So on that note CONGRATULATIONS!!! on the recognition and thanks for a great site.l
DITTO !!

Congrats Gram your a smart son of a gun

ultrastar wrote:
Congrats Gram your a smart son of a gun

+1

Gram wrote:
I am reading the book "Users, Not Customers" written by Aaron Shapiro the CEO of HUGE. In a section where he sites recent successes in brand/user relations in digital mediums (Page 80) he says:

"In 2009, the Miami Dolphins football team redesigned its Web site using Drupal's modular infrastructure. The team's goal was one any major brand would identify with: to better engage its users and integrate more modern technologies such as social media onto the site. ... The final site, which hosts about about a million visits on game day boasts live statistics feeds, video for events such as press conferences and player interviews, a large photo gallery, advertising banners and bilingual content. Its a site any user-centric manager would be proud of."

Thanks Aaron!! Its nice to have our work acknowledged. The site was replaced this last season by one that is being maintained by the NFL (we knew that would happen in advance), it was a really good site.

Congratulations. I guess you do know what I meant by one set of problems with Drupal trading for Joomla. Just like any CMS... they all have their own warts.

You (the royal you) use a CDN to keep content closer to people, or did you serve everything from your site? You probably also "minify'd" everything? Any kind of a reverse proxy setup for serving static content? Of course you load balanced everything? Any kind of a Web Application Firewall, if so which one did you use?

gfolkert wrote:
Congratulations. I guess you do know what I meant by one set of problems with Drupal trading for Joomla. Just like any CMS... they all have their own warts.

You (the royal you) use a CDN to keep content closer to people, or did you serve everything from your site? You probably also "minify'd" everything? Any kind of a reverse proxy setup for serving static content? Of course you load balanced everything? Any kind of a Web Application Firewall, if so which one did you use?

ALL CMSs have warts, that is so true.

Unfortunately I can't talk a lot about the specifics of the setup for security reasons. But we ran everything through Akamai's CDN (as proxy) to offload the static stuff and move it real close to the users. Two of the biggest servers I have ever managed (CPU count wise) were sitting behind it serving up the content, and one more the same size was behind them handling MySQL.

I was surprised how much traffic we could hand out with this rather small setup. But we highly optimized the code and the database. All these servers were just idling all the time until Game day came along.

All CSS and JS were minified, and aggregated into singular files. So something on the order of a dozen css files, minified into a single file. Same with the Javascript.

I have never had to use web firewalls. I bastionize the crap out of the servers so the only available ports talking to the public internet are the ones I want to be communicating. A firewall would not have improved this, only added more server load. I always watch my logs and look for new attack patterns. When I can identify one I build a solution into the web server's configuration (which then gets carried to all my other servers).

Used several layers of caching.

Gram