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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

Using the DB Maintenance module


The DB Maintenance module can be used to optimize your MySQL database tables. Depending on the type of database you are running, the module allows you to use a function called OPTIMIZE TABLE, which troubleshoots and then optimizes various errors in your MySQL tables. For MyISAM tables, the OPTIMIZE TABLE will repair your database tables if they have deleted rows. For BDB and InnoDB types of tables the function will rebuild the entire table. You can use this module in tandem with phpMyAdmin to determine if you do or do not need to optimize your database tables. The benefit of this module is that it allows you to keep your database optimized and defragmented, similar to keeping your computer hard drive optimized and defragmented so that it runs faster, and you can do all this from the Drupal administrative interface.

The project page where you can download the module is here: http://drupal.org/project/db_maintenance.

Download the module tar.gz and extract it...