Blisstering Solutions

Hi Everyone,

Tip 1: Enable the query cache in MySQL
How ??
* You can setup them in /etc/my.cnf (Red Hat) or /etc/mysql/my.cnf (Debian) file:
* # vi /etc/my.cnf
Append config directives as follows:
query_cache_size = 268435456
query_cache_type=1
query_cache_limit=1048576
* You can get the suggestions for my.cnf settings using this script MySQL Performance Tuning Primer Script. Place this script in /etc folder and run using sh /path-to-file/tuning-primer.sh

Tip 2: How to Compress HTML FILES using gzip and Apache mod_deflate

* Add this code in .htaccess

# compress all text & html:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml

# Or, compress certain file types by extension:

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

* If you are in shared hosting then you can try adding this code in index.php of your drupal installation. Which will compress pages and saves the data transfer and time.
ob_start("ob_gzhandler");
You can check your site Gzip enable or not from here http://www.whatsmyip.org/http_compression/

Tip 3: How to Compress CSS and JS files using gzip.

Drupal 6 core itself Gzip's Js files. To compress CSS files please use http://drupal.org/project/css_gzip.

Cheers,
Anil Sagar