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This is not a support channel or a place to post bug reports.
If you think you have found a bug, use the issue queue for the appropriate project.
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Drupal not registering public ip after installing Varnish
Hi there,
I am going crazy about the fact that Drupal 7 does not register the public ip's from my users after installing Varnish.
I have these variables n my settings.php:
$conf['reverse_proxy'] = TRUE;
$conf['cache'] = 1;
$conf['cache_lifetime'] = 0;
$conf['page_cache_maximum_age'] = 21600;
$conf['reverse_proxy_header'] = 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR';
$conf['reverse_proxy_addresses'] = array('127.0.0.1');
$conf['omit_vary_cookie'] = TRUE;
Everywhere I look people say that this is enough, however with my site it still registers everyone is coming from 127.0.0.1
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High Performance Drupal Meetup at Filter Digital and via WebEx on June 18, 2013: DevShop & Views Style Plugins
The next High Performance Drupal meetup is on Tuesday, June 18, 2013, between 7-9pm Pacific (10-12pm Eastern). We're meeting at Filter Digital, a digital solutions agency in Culver City. Those interested in attending this meetup remotely are welcome to join us via WebEx.
Our meetups follow a basic format and start off with Drupal news and announcements, local job announcements, raffle prizes and full-length presentations. As always, we'll also have community Q&A, during which time anyone in attendance can ask questions, divine answers from the crowd and give brief, 5-10 minute-long presentations known as lightning talks. We'll finish off the night with more networking and a Drupal After Dark at 9:00pm.
We're soliciting presentations and lightning talks for this meetup. If there's a topic that you'd like give a presentation on, please leave a comment below. Likewise, if there's a topic that you'd like to learn more about, you're welcome to make a request in the comments below. Thank you!
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What are Some Essential Drupal Performance Optimization Tweaks?
There are several tips available to optimize the performance of your Drupal website. We have covered the same, but we would appreciate if we get a feedback from your end so that we can add more and more tweaks which help in optimizing the performance of DP site.
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Use Tagged Cache Invalidation instead of purging specific URLs in Varnish
I stumbled across this article which describes a useful technique for doing cache invalidation. This could work nicely and have many advantages over calculating the list of URLs to invalidate on the Drupal side, as the current combination of Varnish+Expire modules does. We could hook into entity CRUD functions and add headers to the response.
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Anyone tried OpenShift by Redhat for hosting?
Hello,
Been looking at https://www.openshift.com/developers/pricing#faq-what-are-scaling-threshold
Looks impressive to me especially the autoscaling part. Any experiences?
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High Volume Hosting Solutions
I maintain a news-oriented site which gets several tens of millions of page views per month. We've recently implemented an effort to include images in all of our articles. This is putting us over our bandwidth limit, which gets expensive very quickly. We are also having a minor dispute with the hosting company regarding the terms of these limits and the cost of purchasing more bandwidth in bulk.
I am recommending a CDN for hosting the images, or, failing that, another dedicated server to manage images and store backups and system monitoring data.
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Alpha Version of AdvAgg 7.x-2.x released
The first alpha version of AdvAgg 7.x has been released.
Summary:
- Everything is working except for CDN's farfuture option.
- If using jQuery Update the advagg_css_cdn and advagg_js_cdn sub modules should be disabled.
- Uses httprl for aggregate building if module is installed.
- New sub module called advagg_mod; allows for tweaks to the css/js like put all JS in the footer.
Anybody taken an O"Reilly course in sys admin?
Sorry if this isn't the right place (so many groups out there :)! ) but I was wondering if anyone ever took or could recommend this O"Reilly Media Course in Linux:
http://www.oreillyschool.com/certificates/sysadmin.php
I'm trying to get my sys admin chops, have some books, but thinking that maybe some structured resources would help.
Thanks and apologies if this is the wrong group; not sure where to ask this question.
Read moreVery Slow Caching, Memory Spikes
Hello, it's me again. I've been trying to monitor my site for some days now and it occured to me to re-enable Devel to check out the speed of my queries. Turns out they're the problem. Some pages load faster than others, but for places like the forum, opening a link takes FOREVER, and it's not hard to see why, on one page below these were the longest running queries in the list. There way many more cache drags like the one below.
4755.013ms DrupalDatabaseCache::setP A
SELECT 1 AS expression FROM cache_menu cache_menu WHERE ( (cid = :db_condition_placeholder_0) ) FOR UPDATE
default
Should I still use entitycache in Drupal 7 projects?
I have been using entitycache [1] without problems in D7. However I have not really measured lately does it really improve the performance and is there some issues? And what is the state at the moment about entitycache going to core [2] in D7 or D8?
What I am asking is:
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Should I use entitycache in projects of any kind? (Like using APC cache ALWAYS because it does not matter is there logged in users or not.)
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Has anyone measured the impact lately? (If it is in core it does not really make sense using it, right?)
