Now that you have upgraded to Drupal 6.13, you're ready to learn how to maintain the site, keep it running smoothly on a regular basis, and enable some performance enhancements that we will continue to monitor. This chapter will show you a selection of best practice Drupal maintenance tips and tricks that you can enable using the core Drupal administration interface. These performance enhancements will help you to run a powerful and well-maintained Drupal site.
Running a Drupal website is like keeping a fire truck prepared to go on a rescue call. The apparatus needs to be washed and inspected daily by firefighters so that it's ready to go fight a fire or rescue someone in need at a moment's notice. Your Drupal site also needs to be closely taken care of daily so that it runs smoothly, leaving less room for issues both on the site frontend and the backend, including the server.
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to perform the following maintenance...