In the summer of 2009, Chapter Three launched Pantheon, an open-source cloud hosting initiative for the Drupal development community. In this talk, CTO Josh Koenig dissects "The Cloud" as a concept, gives a tour of the marketplace for cloud services, and digs into what it takes to build an...
Just how fast is it?
On a standard VPS host, Mercury can serve 2,000+ pages per second. It is more than two hundred times faster than standard hosting environments.
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Why does speed matter?
Improving your site page load time and increasing the peak number of pages per second your site can scale to can produce measurable benefits for your business.
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How much does it cost?
Mercury hosting services start at $50 a month for a dedicated virtual server with 512MB of ram. The Mercury software is open source and free.
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What Drupal Developers Are Saying About Mercury
Four Kitchens
Founder
"Pantheon is one of the fastest ways to get a site running with Pressflow's advanced scalability and performance features. Pantheon even bundles tools to support ongoing management of existing deployments, a big improvement over most virtual machine appliances."
Commerce Guys
Founder
"I managed to launch mercury, import my code and content, and get a site running in less time than my current development server was able to import the database."
Agile Ware
Founder, Director
Transactions: 107720 hits, Transaction rate: 391.20 trans/sec; Response time: 0.13 secs; Availability: 100.00 %; Pantheon rocks.
New Eon Media, Inc.
President
Uptown Almanac found itself on the front page of reddit, delivering 18k uniques in a short period of time. Despite using the smallest EC2 instance available, there were absolutely no noticeable slowdowns while using Mercury.
Pantheon Partners
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