Linux

What is Mercury?:

Mercury is a standardized best-practice server configuration for running your Drupal website that takes the best of the collected community practices, combines them with cutting-edge open-source tools for high-performance hosting, and delivers it all in a complete package.

Mercury is combination of below mentioned server configurations.

* Varnish :

Hi Every one,

If performance is the issue for your Drupal site then one thing you are missing is memcache. This article explains you step by step process to install and memcache and how memcache helps to boost your drupal website.

What is memcache ?

Memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

Hi Everyone,

Alternative PHP Cache (APC) is a free, open source framework that optimizes PHP intermediate code and caches data and compiled code from the PHP bytecode compiler in shared memory, which will save the compile time of php code and increases the drupal performance which is built using php.

In this article i am going to specify how to install and how to optimize the APC for Drupal.

Step 1:

To install APC we need PECL command. For this we need to install some packages. Run the below command to install php-pear, and php5-dev packages.

Hi Everyone,

I am giving the step by step instructions to install Drupal 6 on linux machine. I am giving this steps for Ubuntu 9.10. For any other linux forks you need some small changes.

Apache Installation:

Step 1: Install apache 2 by entering this command in linux terminal.

~$> sudo apt-get install apache2

Step 2: Now apache is installed and running in your system. You can verify this by typing this url on your bowser.