Whitehouse.gov now powered by Drupal

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by GiraffeNecktie • 17 years ago

44 27 17 years ago

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kgrin• 17 years ago

Original article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10...

Actually a pretty reasonable write-up of open source advantages.

morphir• 17 years ago

Drupals founder, Dries Buytaert got some reflections on this too. http://buytaert.net/whitehouse-gov-using-drupal

jrockway3• 17 years ago

6 words in and there were so many errors that I couldn't continue to read. What is it with the PHP community and the inability to use English correctly?

mcav• 17 years ago

He's from Belgium, though I don't know where he learned English.

Steve0• 17 years ago

How many languages do you know?

acangiano• 17 years ago

English is a language, a tool for communication. What he wrote is perfectly understandable by any reasonably intelligent individual who is fluent in English. I'm sorry if his English proficiency is not up to your standards, but I assure you that it is far better than your Flemish, or French, or probably any other language than English, which happens to be the one you learned as a child.

thaumaturgy• 17 years ago

The effects of the next Drupal security hole should be entertaining.

Subgun• 17 years ago

absolutely. I bet Vegas is taking bets on it

sprice2• 17 years ago

Http headers say 'Server: White House'

I would guess all that is publicly accessible is static and being served from Squid or Varnish.

Good luck taking advantage of any Drupal security hole.

marcusestes• 17 years ago

Most likely Varnish, which is made possible by the Pressflow Drupal distro, which among other things, cleans up the http header problems in Drupal 6: http://fourkitchens.com/pressflow-makes-drupal-scale

Much of Pressflow's codebase was backported from Drupal 7, so its advantages will be available to all Drupal sites after the stable release of version 7 sometime early next year.

_ck_• 17 years ago

I sure hope their email is done a physically different server and hard drive.

jacquesm• 17 years ago

You have to enlighten me how it could be a different physical server and yet be the same hard drive ?

Unless you are suggesting they use ATA-over-ethernet or something like that to share the same drive.

Or maybe you meant to be worried that they might use virtual machines where one is running the .gov site and the other would be mail server or something like that ?

At the volumes of web traffic they receive there it would surprise me if they only had one server to do just whitehouse.gov, especially if they're using drupal.

alecco• 17 years ago

Nice try, FBI.

wlievens2• 17 years ago

Belgians ftw

bcl• 17 years ago

I would hope that the White House would apply their cyber-security experts to the problem of securing Drupal and contribute their changes back to the community. ;)

tptacek• 17 years ago

Yeah. The White House's cybersecurity experts. That should be pretty awesome.

c00p3r• 17 years ago

same as http://www.zerohedge.com/

wrinklz• 17 years ago

http://www.barackobama.com/ is run on Movable Type Pro, which is essentially the supported commercial version of the open source Movable Type. I don't recall the hoopla surrounding that choice. Buytaert's company Acquia helped develop whitehouse.gov. Perhaps some of the development that went into whitehouse.gov may end up back in open source, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Whitehouse.gov now powered by Drupal

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