| Attribute | Average |
|---|---|
| Features | 4.6 / 5 |
| Reliability | 4.4 / 5 |
| Ease Of Use | 4.6 / 5 |
| Documentation | 4.4 / 5 |
| Vote Count | 5 |
Boost provides static page caching for Drupal enabling a very significant performance and scalability boost for sites that receive mostly anonymous traffic. Boost is very easy to install and has been throughly tested on Shared, VPS and Dedicated hosting. Apache is fully supported, with Nginx, Lighttpd... [More...]
| Maintainer: | Arto |
| Links: | |
| Categories: | Import and export, Performance and Scalability, Utility |
| Version | Date | Files | Release notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.x-1.18 | 2010-Jan-25 | Download | Recommended |
| 5.x-1.0 | 2007-Sep-30 | Download | Recommended |
| 7.x-1.x-dev | 2011-Apr-04 | Download | Development |
| 6.x-1.x-dev | 2011-Apr-13 | Download | Development |
| 5.x-1.x-dev | 2011-Feb-25 | Download | Development |
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This module is very nice to fasten our page.. but the trouble is when i updated the css or jscript, i have to delete the files under /default/files/css /js to make the page change, unless my css will not run..
Takes the load off your server by converting your pages into html. Works very well except for one thing. It sees www.yoursite.com & yoursite.com as being two domains & so creates 2 caches which may not be in sync. You can get round that issue with .htaccess. Needs some care setting up.
Not a panacea, nor a replacement for optimization of the page itself, but certainly brings down load times.
I have tried this module on several sites and have had buggy behavior on some of them. On one site, it was showing cached versions of logged-in user pages to anonymous users... so I had to turn it off.
It is pretty easy to set up. Enable, go to performance settings, turn on, configure as desired, and make sure you have your cache folder (or perms are set so it can create it).
Make sure to test on a staging/test site before deploying live. Clear cache while logged in, then go around to the various pages and check those pages from a different type of browser while being anonymous. If it doesn't show you anything it shouldn't, you are good to go.
Kristen
http://kristen.org
Easy to use, really well thought through and implemented. Highly recommended.
