On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, John R Pierce wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: John R Pierce <pierce at 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 -- In theory, theory and practice are the same; in practice they are not. This email was sent from my laptop with Centos 5.5