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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

Backing up your site using SFTP/FTP and cPanel


Now that we have completed our initial investigation of the best practice methods for maintaining and monitoring our new Drupal 6.13 site, it's a good idea to run a full backup of the site directory (all of our Drupal files and folders), and of the database. We did this in Chapter 1 before we completed our initial Drupal 5.x upgrade, but we're now going to look at this in more detail. Backups are essential to keep our site performing well over time. Eventually, you may run into an issue or glitch in your site or database, which will cause you to be forced to restore some of your Drupal core or module files and restore your Drupal database. You may never need to resort to a backup, but it's a requirement to have a backup in case you do need it because issues and errors in your site and database can come up unexpectedly.

The first method is to run a backup of all of your Drupal files and folders. One method of doing this is through SFTP. Connect...