Drupal site just sits there loading and eventually times out?  Check sites/default/settings.php.  In particular, you may be loading stuff that will slow you down/bring your site to a halt.  For instance, try commenting out: $conf[‘cache_backends‘][] = ‘sites/all/modules/memcache_storage/memcache_storage.inc‘; $conf[‘cache_default_class‘] = ‘MemcacheStorage‘; $conf[‘cache_class_cache_form‘] = ‘DrupalDatabaseCache‘; $conf[‘cache_backends‘][] = “sites/all/modules/memcache/memcache.inc“; $conf[‘cache_default_class‘] = ‘MemCacheDrupal‘; $conf[‘cache_class_cache_form‘] = ‘DrupalDatabaseCache‘; Or any one that […]

To update drupal manually, download and unzip drush, then go into the directory where you unzipped, and run: ./drush pm-update projects drupal-7.33 -r  <path to your drupal installation>   I later had to rebuild content access permissions. With drush:   sudo ./drush php-eval ‘node_access_rebuild();’ -r<path to your drupal installation> -y -l http://<url> -v I had […]

Significant speedup:   APC <- alternative php cache view cache (under view’s configuration:   View content cache:  http://drupal.org/project/views_content_cache css/js aggregation: https://drupal.org/project/advagg   Other modules:  Boost, authcache   Configuration -> Development -> performance:  enable whatever cache checkbox you see. Disable developer module putting ?blah after css and javascript files, since this prevents caching.