So we all want to make our Drupal site faster, we expect more traffic, we want our pages to render quickly and to keep our server healthy.  When we start to get a lot of traffic we first must optimize our server and site before making any hardware upgrades. Sometimes doing that may just be enough at the moment. Here is a quick overview of what to do to completely optimize your Drupal site without making any hardware adjustments. To get the detailed steps to achieve optimal performance, download the free white paper we published. More

Drupal is an open source PHP based Content Management System which allows you to easily build and customize web applications. Currently, there are innumerable websites on the internet built on Drupal. One of the main reasons for the increasing popularity of Drupal is its extensibility and modularity which allow developers to implement new features and contribute them to the community so it can be maintained and reviewed by other developers. There is a huge volume of contributed modules on the community site so almost any feature needed is very likely to be already implemented.  Bug fixes and feature requests are continuously being added to the contributed modules so it is important to keep modules up to date all the time, this task is even more important when security updates are released. More

Drupal is an open source PHP based CMS that allows easily creating web applications, plug-in themes and creating custom functionality. One of the main advantages of Drupal is that there is a large list of contributed modules available at the Drupal.org site that almost any feature needed is already developed or being developed by the community. Most importantly, is that when any bug is found on any module, developers can report the issue and contribute patches so the module can be updated by the maintainers. When a new release of a module becomes available it is reported on the administration interface so developers can update the site. However, there are tasks that are not so trivial that can be performed with the out-of-the-box functionality of the Drupal core, like the task of updating Drupal modules. Fortunately there is a Drupal tool called Drush, which is a command line application tool used to enable, disable, uninstall, update many aspects of Drupal such as modules, themes, profiles or translations.  More

The Localization Client Module is a contributed  Drupal module that provides enterprises with an efficient, user friendly way of translating content in-place. Localization Client module provides a graphic interface that helps a user translate almost any content through it on every single Drupal page. More

Companies that need to provide resources with a geographical location through their websites can improve the experience of their customers by giving additional geographical information related to the place. One of the best ways to provide users with location information about places or other resources is by displaying the location on a map. In Drupal, there are several modules that can be used to display and manage geographical data. More

E-commerce is an important tool that allows companies to advertise and sell their products and services via the web. Today many online shoppers will not tolerate very many problems during their online shopping experience before they search for another website to make their purchase. So for companies in e-commerce its integral that the purchasing process operate perfectly to mitigate the risks of losing sales. Drupal offers several e-commerce features though the two most widely used modules are called E-commerce and Ubercart. Both modules contain several sub-modules that will satisfy the e-commerce needs of most of the sites.  More

The increasing activity on social micro-blogging networks such as Twitter and Facebook has caused many companies to include Twitter and Facebook applications within their websites. When viewing a blog post, for example, users expect to have a “Follow me on Twitter” link near the blog post author name and a “Post to Twitter” or “Post to Facebook” button somewhere near the article content. While digging into Drupal projects I have found several contributed modules that can be used to provide Drupal integration with Social Networks and vice-versa. Here is a list of modules which I consider the most relevant: More

Memcache is a very simple caching system that uses memory to store objects. As you may already know, memory is faster to read than hard drive.  A site will take a lot less time to read a database result cached in memory. To make the best use of memcache on Drupal 6, you should install the memcache module. For this post we used Ubuntu Server 10.04, but all commands should work on most Ubuntu editions.
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When the browser makes requests to the web server, it sends cookie data on the header. On static files like images, stylesheets, javascript files and swf files, the cookie data is not needed so these files should be placed on a separate cookie-free domain. This way we reduce the overhead on the requests. More