UPDATE4:Thank-you to the 41 people and 22 organizations that signed for membership since this announcement was posted. We now have over 157 paid members and have raised 6162.01 EURO in memberships out of 7500EUR to pay for this hardware.

As part of our ongoing efforts to support the Drupal.org infrastructure, the Drupal Association has further bulked up our hardware resources with 10 GB of RAM and a new master database server. These improvements will help us deal with the exponential growth curve the Drupal community has been experiencing, and help us prepare for the anticipated growth due to Drupal 6.

The Drupal Association spent approximately $11,000 USD on hardware. To help pay for these upgrades and support the Drupal.org infrastructure, please purchase a membership (individual, organization). Your membership will help the association plan and spend money to support the Drupal.org infrastructure and Drupal events such as Drupalcons for the next 12 months.

You can learn about the evolving architecture of our infrastructure in these diagrams. You can learn about our efforts to scale the Drupal.org architecture in this presentation. You can also view a picture of the new database server.

These upgrades included 2GB RAM for each of three web servers and 4 GB for the database slave server. The new master database server is a a dual quad core Xeon processor with 16GB of RAM with four 15,000 RPM SCSI disks. We believe that this database hardware combined with new web servers should allow the Drupal.org infrastructure to double its capacity to 30 million pages a month and 50,000 unique authenticated users per month.

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