Smosh is currently the #1 subscribed channel on YouTube and their site showcases their funny videos and blog posts, along with a forum and some social networking features.
About the project
The Challenge:
Drupal Connect was asked to upgrade their Drupal 6 site to Drupal 7 along with a theme overhaul to match a new (much more awesome looking) design, migrate of all content and all 2 million users!
The Solution:
The interesting thing about Smosh is that much of its traffic is authenticated users which makes traditional performace improvement methods like Varnish a little trickier since we had to handle the dynamic elements. We used edge-side includes for that as well as MongoDB for some data. This allowed us to help the site able to withstand the insane traffic that Smosh gets.
Why Drupal was chosen
Drupal was chosen because of it's flexibility and ability to handle multiple media formats.
Technical Specifications
Drupal version:
Migrate - was used to migrate the content from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7.
Media - was used to as a platform to play videos on the Drupal site
