[support] SLOW LOADING

[Laura Scott]

Hi Liza,

Knowing your general opposition to going through an upgrade if at all  
avoidable (though 4.7 to 5.2 is quite a smooth and generally painless  
upgrade), one thing that can have immediate benefits is to use block  
cache. It creates cached versions of all your blocks and makes the  
cached versions available in the blocks administration. Then you can  
replace your existing blocks with cached versions, as appropriate.  
Each block has its own configuration settings to determine how  
frequently it should be refreshed.

This will not affect node loads, menu loads (unless you use cached  
versions), comment loads or global user permission checks, etc., but  
it can help sites on underpowered servers. Figure 20-30 minutes of  
configuration time because you need to configure each block  
separately, and the cached versions will not automatically inherit  
the block visibility settings you may have on each block. You do not  
need to take your site down to do this, either.

Hope this helps!

Laura

On Oct 14, 2007, at 9:03 PM, blogdiva at culturekitchen.com wrote:

> This is the #1 complaint I get from users of my site and no matter  
> what I do, I can't figure how to make my pages load faster. I would  
> like to know what suggestions you have. I really don't think this  
> is an issue with what's on the pages. I think this is something to  
> do with the DB and how it calls in blocks.
>
> I am running D4.7
>
>
>
> / liza
>
>
> Liza Sabater, Publisher
> www.culturekitchen.com
> www.dailygotham.com
>
> MOB - 646.552.7365
> AIM - cultkitdiva
>
>
>
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