Thursday, June 17, 2010

Accelerate drupal performance

Update: There are several modules available to Drupal 6 for caching pages, thus enhancing load-performance of your Drupal website.  I've personally tried the CacheRouter below, and have found this excellent article outlining an alternative - Boost & DB Maintenance.

Dedicated hosting setup
I just installed APC - the PHP opcode cache engine - on our server, and configured it as described in

APC Drupal Performance tuning

APC enabling & optimization makes Drupal websites SCREAM!

Shared hosting setup
If you are running your Drupal website on shared hosting, and don't have the option if APC ( as it is a server-wide installation, and not single-site!) then you might want to check out the Boost/DB Maintenance modules, or the one below...

CacheRouter Module
Update: I've tried this module on a website featuring AJAX loading of node content (through Views 2 Module), and experiencing rather high load-times with this combination.  Maybe Views 2 Cache needs to be enabled for the same content, maybe not.  I will test this later on - And please - if you test, then comment here... Thanks!

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