By mileZ on

Hi,

how can I incrase the performance of a Drupal website on Dreamhost?

I've read about eAccelerator but where can I find a tutorial how to install eAccelerator on Dreamhost.

thnks
mileZ

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themegarden.org’s picture

themegarden.org commented

If you think on shared hosting on Dreamhost, as I know, you can't install eAccelerator (or anything like eAccelerator).

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carlmcdade commented

http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/node/3202

You might start with

http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/node/3201

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Eric_drupal_addict’s picture

Eric_drupal_addict commented

hello,

i used the hiveminds tutorials to install eaccelerator on dreamhost and it works perfectly!

I chose dreamhost because it seemed it was the only host allowing to install an accelerator on shared hosting and i didn't want to invest hundreds of dollars on a VPS for quite the same results. If my sites need such an (financial) upgrade, then ok. But for test purposes, no!

Here's the wiki of dreamhost related to eaccelerator
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/EAccelerator

BTW, i contacted the admin of this Drupal site (he posted a job offer a few weeks ago, looking for someone to improve performance) : http://www.rue89.com/

He told me they used APC (http://ch2.php.net/apc) to solve their problem. Just visit the site and see how quick it responds! It seems to be a good alternative too.

Here's the wiki of dreamhost related to APC
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Pecl_APC

Enjoy the install!
Eric in Switzerland

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carlmcdade commented

APC does work with the same techniques described with eAccelarator but we decide not to publish the article. We could not get the administration control panel and a couple of other small things to work with any consistency on PHP5 on Dreamhost. Maybe I will give it another try if APC has been updated significantly over the last year.

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