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Drupal 6 Performance Tips

By : T J Holowaychuk, Trevor James
Book Image

Drupal 6 Performance Tips

By: T J Holowaychuk, Trevor James

Overview of this book

<p>Drupal is one of the most respected and widely used open source content management frameworks.&nbsp; Small, medium, and large-scale websites are built using Drupal and the framework supports ecommerce, CRM, multisite and web service integrations.&nbsp; <br /><br />Once you get your Drupal site installed and up and running, you will be concerned with site performance and how fast you can make your Drupal site run.&nbsp; This book will focus on implementing performance modules and solutions to help speed up your Drupal website.<br /><br />We will look at introductory topics such as upgrading your Drupal site, maintaining your site, and enabling core Drupal page compression and caching. <br />&nbsp;<br />Then we will turn to an advanced look at some contributed modules that help speed up performance, including Development, Boost, Authcache, Advanced Cache, and the Memcache API and Integration module.<br /><br />Finally, we&rsquo;ll look at how best to implement a Drupal multisite environment and run it with high-speed performance in mind.<br /><br />This book is designed for Drupal developers and webmasters who want to increase their Drupal site&rsquo;s speed and performance.&nbsp; You will take your Drupal site to the next level by not only displaying relevant and newsworthy content, but also running a powerful and high-speed website.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Drupal 6 Performance Tips
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

Chapter 2. Maintaining your Drupal Site

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...