Saturday, November 1, 2008

Do You Own a Drupal Powered Website?

By Ben A Holmes

I recently ran into a hosting website called HotDrupal.com - on the recommendation of someone I trust, I decided to move my website from a shared hosting package to a new HotDrupal account.

As my website was on a new hosting package sponsored by a long-standing company - and had very few websites per server - I really didn't expect to see any tremendous improvements in efficiency or speed.

Boy was I surprised! My website, after being moved - just about tripled it's speed in producing a webpage. I was downright shocked at the difference in speed, it was very noticeable!

It seems that HotDrupal has optimized their servers quite well for Drupal - one of the little tricks they employ is putting the MySQL database on the same server as your website. At most other hosting companies, your Drupal site will have to network to another server for MySQL database queries - and every microsecond counts when you need to run a large number of database queries for each webpage.

My site, for example - executed 268 MySQL database queries in 123.54 milliseconds, and rendered the entire home page in just 292.34 milliseconds. If you're on shared hosting - run the Devel module, and compare your results to mine - you might just decide that HotDrupal.com is worth taking a look at!

Another trick that HotDrupal utilizes is duplicate servers - the only programs running on the server hosting your website are those that are absolutely essential to serving webpages. All other programs, such as your Cpanel or email programs, are on a separate server. This isn't something you'll find at any shared hosting company - and you aren't likely to find faster speed until you can afford to move to a dedicated host.

Until that time - head over and take a look at HotDrupal - you'll be glad you did!


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Ben A Holmes runs http://www.BurningKnife.com - a community website with tons of free information, and where people help others with website creation, Search Engine Optimization, and driving traffic. ============================================================

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