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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

Summary


In this chapter we completed the following steps and now have a good understanding of how Memcached API and Integration module works with our Drupal site:

  • Installed the MoWeS Portable suite of applications and Apache server on our Windows XP local machine

  • Installed the Memcached service and libraries in order to use the Memcache API and Integration module

  • Integrated and tested Memcached with our PHP settings

  • Installed and configured the Memcache API and Integration module into our Drupal site

  • Enabled the Memcache Admin module in order to display our Memcache statistics on each page load

  • Checked our Memcache stats on example nodes

Let's take a break! When we come back in Chapter 8, we'll take a look at contributed modules that are built to work along with the Memcache API module and will help us to enhance our caching mechanisms in our Drupal site even further. This will include the Cache Router, Authenticated User Page Caching, Advanced Cache, and File Based Caching modules. See you back...