Making sure that your site performs well under a load of heavy traffic is critical to its success.

We'll discuss the basic concepts and techniques involved in making sure your Drupal website runs smoothly and can handle a heavy load.

Some of the topics included:

- Factors that affect performance
- Measuring performance
- Different types of hosting (Shared, VPS, "Grid", Mosso)
- Techniques used to make enterprise websites scalable (ie Facebook, LiveJournal)
- Basics of Performance-friendly Drupal Module development