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Drupal 7 Social Networking

You're reading from   Drupal 7 Social Networking Build a social or community website with friends lists, groups, custom user profiles, and much more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516006
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Drupal 7 Social Networking
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Drupal and Social Networking FREE CHAPTER 2. Preparing Drupal for a Social Networking Site 3. User Content: Contributions, Forums, and Blogs 4. Users and Profiles 5. Enabling User Interaction 6. Social Seasoning 7. Module Development: Rapidly Improve your Social Network 8. How We Can Design Our Site 9. Communicating with Our Users 10. Deploying and Maintaining Your Social Network 11. Easing Growing Pains 12. Promotion, SEO, User Retention, and Monetization Strategies Setting up a Local Development Environment Installed Modules Index

Chapter 11. Easing Growing Pains

As we get more and more users, and our social network becomes more popular, we will be faced with two new challenges: growth and scalability. Hopefully, this will be a problem we are faced with as a result of the marketing and promotion topics discussed in Chapter 12, Promoting Our Site.

As site usage increases, more and more resources on our web server are consumed. Depending on the hosting provisions we use and the resources at our disposal, this can lead to a slower experience for our users, a server failure, or some users being unable to access the site. We can help mitigate against this by looking at how we can get the most out of our server hardware, by improving our site, and how we can scale by adding more resources (not just by adding more servers).

In this chapter, you will learn the following:

  • How to speed up load time of content for anonymous users by caching it

  • How to use third-party caching engines to increase performance

  • How NoSQL solutions can...

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