On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, John R Pierce wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] Best way to set up for PHP websites
On 12/17/10 9:30 AM, Cia Watson wrote:
I've never actually configured php, I just install the files (including php-mbstring), and create a user for mysql and extract the Drupal files to the docroot and I'm good to go. If it's a high-traffic site others may have more specifics about php to add... for me the defaults have worked fine. HTH.
drupal really hammers on your database too. you need a well tuned and optimized mysql or postgres configuration to run it, and you likely want to use some form of SQL cache (memcached etc), since drupal will make the same queries over and over and over again.
This is not FOSS stuff, but something like ioncube might help you speed things up.
http://www.ioncube.com/comments.php
HTH
Keith Roberts