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Arto - October 15, 2006 - 15:31

This module provides static page caching for Drupal 4.7 (unsupported), 5.x (looking for a maintainer) and 6.x (thread about 6.x development), enabling a very significant performance and scalability boost for heavily-trafficked Drupal sites that receive mostly anonymous traffic.

For an introduction, read the original blog post. More technical details are available in Justin Miller's write-up.

Read how Development Seed used Boost to help the United Nations campaign StandAgainstPoverty.org set a world record in organizing the biggest mass mobilization on a single issue, with over 116 million people (almost 2% of the world's population) participating:

Be sure to read the accompanying README.txt and INSTALL.txt for installation and usage instructions. This is an advanced-level module and primarily intended for system administrators and developers who understand the mod_rewrite directives that make it tick.

Boost was originally developed by Arto Bendiken. Currently the following people have CVS access: Moshe Weitzman, Barry Jaspan, Justin Miller, Ben Lavender, Josh Koenig, Ian Ward and Mike Carper.

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Releases

Official releasesDateSizeLinksStatus
6.x-1.0-beta22009-Jun-2339.18 KBDownload · Release notesRecommended for 6.xThis is currently the recommended release for 6.x.
5.x-1.02007-Sep-3021.1 KBDownload · Release notesRecommended for 5.xThis is currently the recommended release for 5.x.
Development snapshotsDateSizeLinksStatus
6.x-1.x-dev2009-Jul-0439.52 KBDownload · Release notesDevelopment snapshotDevelopment snapshots are automatically regenerated and their contents can frequently change, so they are not recommended for production use.
5.x-1.x-dev2009-Jan-1024.98 KBDownload · Release notesDevelopment snapshotDevelopment snapshots are automatically regenerated and their contents can frequently change, so they are not recommended for production use.


 
 

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