General discussion

Hi Drupal Gurus,

This is my first post here.Recently I have started taking interest in Drupal.Other day my friend (Java developer) and I were talking about Drupal's capability in handling large and complex web development.

And I was wondering if Drupal is capable of replicating following websites exactly.

www.realestate.com.au and www.carsales.com.au

I am developing drupal 7 since 2011, but only now i thought is it possible do not use core drupal themes and adminstration and some basic modules, is it possible?

This is a clear spam comment:

http://drupal.org/node/43816#comment-3256600

how can we proceed to "clean" it or remove his link to avoid any harmful consequence for Drupal.org?

Thanks.

Why?

The first idea that came to my mind when I first ran cache clear that lasted a minute or so, was "I want it run quicker!". If you are those unhappy guys who don't have an SSD, but do have a bit of RAM - you may find this discussion interesting and useful.

How?

PHP code caching (opcode caching)

The first thing to do is to install APC (or equivalent) extension for PHP. I will not describe the procedure since you can find a plenty of tutorials on that. The idea behind this is to cache the PHP code after it is parsed and then just call this compiled (executable) version instead of perpetual parsing. Speed-up is noticeable, especially with heavy PHP apps like Drupal.

RAM backed MySQL

And this is what this discussion is about. The idea is to move all (or certain relevant) databases (i.e. data files that represent the data, structure, indexes etc.) completely to a RAM partition - a piece of memory that acts like a virtual disk.
Performance gain you may get varies (based on personal practice) from 2 up to 5 times quicker lasting operations like cache clear, feature revert, migration etc.
And here is the solution:
http://github.com/lex0r/ramysql

Does Drupal 7 support connection pooling with mysql?

Hello everyone,

We are currently moving our website to Drupal. We would like to build the new website off a template/theme that I buy somewhere. Unfortunately this project doesn't have enough budget for a custom made theme. I'm sorry if this topic rises false hopes. But I hope that the community will give me directions to where to find such a theme. I've seen many designers build themes, but they are not as prominent. Beautiful designs, but just not what I'm looking for. Maybe you can help me find a hidden nugget.