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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 Drupal multisite


What is Drupal multisite and why should we use it? Multisite allows you to run multiple Drupal websites and instances from one main Drupal core codebase. As we have seen throughout this book, when we install and configure Drupal, we are using Drupal's main core system and database to power and drive our website. This includes the core /modules and /themes folders, as well as /scripts, /profiles, /misc, and /includes. The flexibility of Drupal allows us to install additional websites (as many as we need) and share all of our core files, modules, and themes within these multisites. This helps tremendously when we are planning to build a large website environment for a company or organization that has multiple departments, divisions, or stakeholders. We can offer these types of clients a large scale Drupal multisite. The sites will be more flexible, will perform better, and be easier to maintain.

One benefit here is that when you need to upgrade or patch a core or contributed...