In this chapter, we looked in detail at two contributed modules—DB Maintenance and Boost, which help to both maintain and speed up performance of our website. Specifically, we did the following:
Installed and configured the DB Maintenance contributed module in order to optimize, repair, and back up our MySQL database.
Installed and configured the Boost module in order to set up basic static HTML page cached versions of our Drupal nodes.
Tweaked our
HTACCESS
file to enable the Boost settings through the Boost htaccess rules generator functionality.Enabled the following Boost module blocks: Pages cache status, Pages cache configuration, and AJAX core configuration.
Let's take a break! When we come back in Chapter 6, we'll take a detailed look at Boost's advanced settings, including a discussion of how to troubleshoot the Boost module if it's not working correctly on your site.