2bits.com has released the Nagios monitoring module that integrates your Drupal site (or hundreds of sites!) into with the Nagios monitoring application.

The module reports to Nagios that the site is up and running normally, including:

We have proposed a session for DrupalCon Washington DC 2009. The topic is one that is dear to our hearts and a common : Backend Drupal performance optimization and tuning: a guide for everyone.

the Wikimedia Foundation has decided to standardize their infrastructure on Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS. This means that 400 servers running Wikipedia will eventually be moved to Ubuntu, instead of having a mix of distributions.

We have been using and advocating the relatively under-advertised Ubuntu Server for several years, both for in house development and testing, as well as for client web sites, large and small.

We have been extremely happy with Ubuntu, for the following reasons.

Emma Jane Hogbin, of Drupal Socks fame, drove down all the way from Owen Sound to Kitchener today

She gave the same well attended talk she did at Drupal Camp Toronto 2008 on How to port your content from * to Drupal.

In total, 16 people attended, the record so far, and impressive for a Drupal Users Group that has only been in existence for only 4 months.

Drupal Camp Toronto 2008 is on this coming Friday and Saturday. Two days of fund, good food, geekiness, and yes, a lot of Drupalisms.

I will be presenting a session there, and having another Birds of a Feather on Performance and Scalability.

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Make sure you do not miss this event!