Coming out of the SF DrupalCon Cloud Hosting session, I had been looking for a hosted Mercury solution. I was waiting for Chapter Three's Panteon Mercury solution, but it has been in private beta for months.

Then I saw that Advomatic has launched a hosted Mercury solution, so I checked it out.

I will let the data speak for itself concerning the speed improvement's seen by my private Dog parks website. Here is the graph and it is easy to see when I move the hosting over.

And beyond that, it was very simple to move over the site. Just merged my Drupal 6 install into a Drupal Pressflow install, added and installed the memcache and varnish modules, and watched the load times drop.

Even if your site only has thousands of visitors a day, give them a faster site.

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