// $Id$ 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. Stand Against Poverty United Nations campaign website used to organize events and report event attendance for events at which nearly 117 million people worldwide participated. The events seek to raise awareness about poverty and highlight effort around the United Nations Millennium Development Goals that seek toward reducing global poverty. The website runs on a cluster of 4 load-balanced Apache web servers and a single database server. Boost is used to reduce the overall resource usage consumed by anonymous visitors on the site in order to devote more infrastructure resources toward event organizers who sign in as authenticated users to create events and report event attendance tallies. The Stand Against Poverty site is is 4 languages, and uses the i18n module. Boost was used with this patch http://drupal.org/node/174380#comment-663794 to allow for the use of Boost on i18n sites. While there is still a substantial amount of traffic on the website during the 3 day campaign, the impact of anonymous traffic (which includes all traffic, until users sign in) is greatly reduced. Hosting infrastructure for StandAgainstPoverty.org provided by the good folks at http://www.advomatic.com Development Seed writes more about the campaign on their blog at: http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2008/oct/22/united-nations-uses-drupal-huge-anti-poverty-event http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2008/oct/23/improving-drupals-performance-boost-module-uns-millennium-campaign Environmental Working Group The Environmental Working Group (EWG) uses the power of public information to protect public health and the environment. Boost is used to cache all public-facing pages on the site (13,000+ and counting) and has been critical in sustaining EWG's large amounts of traffic since the site relaunched using Drupal in early 2007. EWG frequently receives traffic from multiple press outlets on a given day and Boost allows EWG to manage its infrastructure in-house and at a fraction of the price that would otherwise be required. 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). 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.