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Re-Indexing your content to Solr, the fast way ...

There are rare occasions when you want to re-index all your site's content in Solr. Such occasions include:

Tuesday, August 25, 2015 - 23:00

Presentation: Backdrop, and alternative Drupal fork

Last week, at the amazing Drupal North regional conference, I gave a talk on Backdrop: an alternative fork of Drupal. The slides from the talk are attached below, in PDF format.

Friday, July 3, 2015 - 16:25

Presentation: Backdrop: A Drupal Fork

Last week, Nathan Vexler of the University of Waterloo, and Khalid Baheyeldin of 2bits.com presented at the Waterloo Region Drupal Users Group on Backdrop.

Tuesday, May 26, 2015 - 13:45

High Performance Drupal with Apache MPM Worker Threaded Server and PHP-FPM

In a previous article from over 5 years ago, we advocated the use of Apache MPM Worker Threaded Server with fcgid over Apache's mod_php.

Tuesday, August 5, 2014 - 16:00

Improve Your Drupal Site Performance While Reducing Your Hosting Costs

We were recently apporached by a non-profit site that runs on Drupal.
Major Complains
Their major complaint was that the "content on the site does not show up". The other main complain is that the site is very slow.

Tuesday, July 22, 2014 - 16:00

Using Drush for a Seven Day Daily Backup scheme for Drupal sites

Everyone needs to have a backup plan for their live site. Not only can your server's disk get corrupted, but you can also erroneously overwrite your site with bad code or bad data, or your site can get hacked.

Tuesday, May 27, 2014 - 15:50

Configuring Apache Solr 3.6 for Drupal on Ubuntu 14.04, with password authentication

Most of high traffic or complex Drupal sites use Apache Solr as the search engine. It is much faster and more scaleable than Drupal's search module.

Monday, May 19, 2014 - 16:26

Configuring Apache Solr 4.x for Drupal, with password authentication

Most of high traffic or complex Drupal sites use Apache Solr as the search engine. It is much faster and more scaleable than Drupal's search module.

Monday, May 12, 2014 - 20:34

Presentation: Drupal Performance Tips and Tricks

On Friday May 2nd, 2014, Khalid of 2bits.com, Inc. presented on Drupal Performance.
The presentation covered important topics such as:

Saturday, May 3, 2014 - 03:36

2bits.com Presenting on Drupal Performance at DrupalCamp Toronto

Khalid of 2bits.com Inc. will be presenting Drupal Performance Tips and Tricks at DrupalCamp Toronto 2014 this coming Friday May 2nd at Humber College, Lakeshore Campus.
See you all there ...

Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 13:46