I was having preformance problems with Drupal (my cheap host complained about resource usage), so after a bunch of questions to the ever helpful Drupal list, I found what I hope is a solution: turn on Drupal's bult-in cache, which caches entire pages so they are 1 database call instead of x. Congestion control: tuning the auto-throttle | drupal.org has more info on Drupal tuning. Aside from all my complaining about Drupal's lacking "remember me" feature, it is a great product and a great community.
# May 17, 2004