Boosting performance

I found this discussion useful while exploring cache and cron issues for my site, real Life English.

http://tomroelandts.com/articles/how-to-ensure-that-visitors-always-see-...

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.

Buenas,

Vamos a iniciar una discucion sobre como optimizar Drupal, consultas son aceptadas y todo tipo de discucion.

Saludos,
Nestor

has anyone considered writing drupal core as a php extension ?
that way the drupal core modules would be loaded as part of apache and not part of each http page request .

Dear Drupal community,

We would like some advice and maybe further collaborations regarding a Drupal-based project, specifically concerning performance issues.

There was talk at the last meeting about how to improve performance. I happened upon this article I thought some of you might be interested in: http://www.morningtime.com/Drupal-6x-Performance-Guide/513

We are working on a site whose pages are taking 17 seconds to load when it is not cached. What you see here is CCK content types like Book, Video, etc. in Block Views, which are then used in Mini Panels. These Mini Panels are joined together to create widgets. We are showing three nodes at a time for each content type - Still loading 12 different content types requires a large number of SQL queries.

I've been having some occasional trouble where my site slows to a crawl.

Does anyone have any best practices for optimizing Drupal on lower memory configurations.

Hi folks,

A client of ours just migrated their Drupal site to a shared hosting service and now experiencing performance issues with logged in users. Drupal's caching and APC are enabled, so content is loading fine for anonymous users. We are mostly running into issues with node add forms and administrative pages loading very slowly.

Has anyone run into similar issues migrating a site from a dedicated server to shared hosting? How did you improve performance on your site?

Hitting any link or doing any operation on the site and Top shows the server using 95 to 100% of the CPU to serve the www-data.

Firstly I am not a developer, I am just a photographer with an idea for a site, which because I couldn't find any local cms developers who would build it on Drupal, I started learning on my own. For the moment this is not about high performance, its about ANY performance!