TYPO3 Scalability for high traffic sites

This presentation will cover scalability and high availability as they apply to TYPO3. Basic goal for both of these is to create a system that is capable of serving web requests all the time, regardless of traffic or failures.

Material for this presentation will be based on experience gained from working on phillyburbs.com CMS migration to TYPO3 over the past 2 years.

Today’s websites can go viral very quickly if they have quality content or engage their users. This is an issue for web administrators who need to plan resources ahead of time for supporting a certain level of traffic. Overprovisioning – buying significantly more resources to accommodate traffic spikes is very expensive. Full page caching is only effective for mostly static sites.
Websites built on TYPO3 are typically very dynamic, and resource intensive. Yet they too can be scaled effectively to accommodate a lot of traffic and sustain failures without failing to deliver.