Drupal.org recently had a three day outage. Drupal is a CMS (Content Management System) written in PHP and supported by a MySQL back-end and which with I have just completed a small pilot project. These reflects the relative growing pains with Drupal as young open source project. I say young but Drupal is WILDLY popular. It's popular for several reasons. First it's written in PHP, one of the new young languages that is relatively easy to learn. Secondly it's actually a relatively secure package. Thirdly it pretty damn useful. It's literally community in a box and that's pretty cool.
So I contributed to the project about 80 EUs to help buy the new cluster of servers this project needed. They had long out grown their shared hosting environment but it took a crisis to make the change. They raised over $10,000 for equipment in less than 48 hours. This tells you how popular this project is. So I am encouraging everyone to give Drupal a try. If you like it, support Drupal with a donation.
