By dalekseenko on

Hi guys,

I am pretty new to web-development so don't judge me rigorously please.

I am going to launch my first web-site based on Drupal 5.7 called steelmaker.ru but I have one really serious blocker -- the whole site is freaking sluggish. I have checked the Performance settings: the caching mode is set to 'normal' and CSS aggregation and compression is enabled.

It looks like it is not a web-hosting (http://masterhost.ru) fault because I have another Wordpress-based site there and it works just fine.

I would really appreciate any comments on this.

Thank you.

Dmitry

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summit’s picture

summit commented

I to have problems with the speed of my site. I have a development aid site focussed on Nepal: www.trekking-world.com I get messages from Nepal that the site is slowing down.

Very much interested what I could do about this.
Greetings,
Martijn

dorien’s picture

dorien commented

Do you have caching on on your site? This could speed things up a bit.

Otherwise, you might want to check installed modules, like google analytics or other statistics modules cuz they are (always, not only for Drupal) know to slow sites down because of the extra database queries / connections that need to be executed.

dorien’s picture

dorien commented

But... everything depends on your hardware and server of course

jscoble’s picture

jscoble commented

and its configuration. Apache and MySQL should be tuned to meet your available resources and expected demands.

Drupal is more complicated than and needs more resources than Wordpress.

You might be able to figure out where some of the slowness comes from by adding the Developer module.

Shared hosting, in general, will be slower than VPS or dedicated servers.

apsivam’s picture

apsivam commented

A PHP opcode cache system is must for any serious Drupal deployment
check any one of the following and use.
http://xcache.lighttpd.net/
http://pecl.php.net/package/APC
http://eaccelerator.net/

you can also use MySQL query cache system (if not enabled already).

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Cheers,
Sivanandhan, P. (a.k.a. apsivam)

dalekseenko’s picture

dalekseenko commented

How to enable 'MySQL query cache system'?

apsivam’s picture

apsivam commented

Check this http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/enable-the-query-cache-in-mysql-to-improve...
and this http://nadeausoftware.com/articles/2007/03/speed_drupal_web_site_enablin...
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Cheers,
Sivanandhan, P. (a.k.a. apsivam)

Designer Dude’s picture

Designer Dude commented

has anyone tried the boost.module?

if I understand it correctly, it generates HTML versions of pages for heavily trafficked sites. I assume you can set it up to 'refresh' the HTML when the site is updated.