There are a couple of projects which have made it easy to achieve performance gains by making slight amendments to core or packaging up the code in a helpful manner. Pressflow makes it possible to use a reverse proxy such as Varnish, amongst other things. Mercury packages Pressflow up as a Amazon EC2 image. The [...]
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Drupal Benchmarking (part 11)
Benchmarking a system is a reliable way to compare one setup with another and is particularly helpful when comparing different server configurations. We cover a few simple ways to benchmark a Drupal website.