diff --git a/USERS.txt b/USERS.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..64f490e79d4d99ed5541a9fe6fae347aa2772ed1 --- /dev/null +++ b/USERS.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +// $Id$ + +This lists some of the users of Boost, describing the setup of the website +in question as well as providing rationale on how Boost benefits the site. +It is hoped that the cases described here may serve as useful guides for new +Boost users evaluating how to best implement static caching on their site. + +If you would like to add your website to this list, please contact the +author at http://drupal.org/user/26089/contact, describing your site and +setup. Try to keep the description to a paragraph or two, and don't forget +to include your name and the URL to your website. Note that additions to +this list are posted at the author's sole discretion, and submissions may be +abridged or edited for grammar. + + Arto Bendiken + Personal website of the author. Boost is used to cache virtually every + page on the site, quite significantly improving response times despite + the sometimes sluggish shared hosting the site runs on. An additional + benefit provided by Boost is that when the backend MySQL database server + goes down, as happens now and then, the site still keeps on trucking + instead of just showing the Drupal database error page (dynamic features + such as posting comments obviously don't work until MySQL access is + restored, however). +