Hey forum - I'm not being lazy. I've done a freaking large amount of reading this past week on a couple forums (including this one) about performance tweaking Drupal/Linux installations. Have made tweaks ranging from MySQL my.cnf configuration to installing monitoring software like Munin. I've read a variety of things from using servers different than Apache, use Boost, don't use Boost, install APC for PHP, ETC.
So....all that aside, if you are using a Linux distribution to run your Drupal site, I want to know what changes you've made to make Drupal FAST. And yes, I know it depends on the site and the traffic, blah, blah, blah. No disclaimers here. Just state your site function, and then your tip. It will help me and hordes of other Drupal newbies out there.
And let me say THANK YOU ahead of time. Oh...and for you other Drupal newbies, don't screw around with shared hosting. I just moved my site to a VPS from www.linode.com and they rock. ROCK. Freaking awesome. And even if you don't understand Linux, their guides are very in-depth and will walk you through most of the steps. You'll still spend some time figuring things out, but their support is very, very fast.
Okay, enough said. Please let the posting begin!
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