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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

Cache Router


The Cache Router contributed module allows you to set up a caching system that assigns specific cache tables to specific Drupal cache technologies. This module works closely with the following cache technologies including Memcache API, the module we worked with in Chapter 7.

  • APC

  • Database

  • eAccelerator

  • File

  • Memcache API

  • XCache

Cache Router is a relatively new and promising module contributed by Steve Rude, available for download at http://drupal.org/project/cacherouter. The module allows you to map specific caching technologies or engines to specific cache tables. As mentioned on the module's project page, the engines mainly consist of refactoring previous cache modules such as the Memcache module already discussed.

This module also implements the page_cache_fastpath Drupal function for all engines except the database engine, allowing nearly all of Drupal to be bypassed for anonymous users.

Download the latest version of the module 6.x-1.0-rc1 for Drupal 6, extract...