Hi Michael - I remember looking into this a few months ago but was deterred by the "experimental" flag. Not sure what that means but is likely that our host wont install it.
It is: > http://drupal.org/project/boost > I thought it would be as easy :) thanks for the link. Regards, Cam On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Paul Bennett <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Thanks for the heads up. > > Boost uses static page caching and works at an .htaccess level, meaning > that if a cached file exists Drupal - and hence PHP and MySQL - aren't even > invoked. There may be a link here to mod_cache but I'm not certain enough of > the details to know. > > The Boost Drupal module mainly manages production and expiry of cached > content and the performance improvement we got for a site whose content > doesn't change all that often was "dramatic" to say the least. > > There are some caveats, which I'd be happy to discuss if anyone is thinking > of going this route... > > :) > Paul > > > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:43:56 Paul Bennett wrote: >> > Hi Cam, >> > >> > It is: >> > http://drupal.org/project/boost >> > >> > :) >> > >> > Paul >> >> This capability is built in to Apache with mod_cache enabled. >> >> There are two options - disk (default) and memory caching. >> >> For the most part disk caching works well and I am currently testing >> memory >> caching. >> >> This is preferable imho for anyone deploying any system that doesn't have >> the >> option already built in to the CMS. >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
