Chapter 11. Maintaining and Optimizing your Drupal Site

Now that we have built our site and integrated it into our business, we need to ensure that our site stays clean and up-to-date. In this chapter, we will explore various maintenance tasks to keep our site operating at peak performance.

We will begin by discussing how to back up our website and then restore it again, to protect it against hardware failures or malicious users. Next, we will discuss performance tuning to ensure that your site can meet any level of traffic demand. Finally, we will review managing and moderating content.

At the end of this chapter, you will be prepared to publish your website to the world, knowing that you are prepared for anything.

To summarize, in this chapter we will:

• Backup our Drupal site files

• Backup our MySQL database

• Install and configure the Backup and Migrate module

• Maintain and optimize our database

• Learn about how to optimize and tweak performance settings on our Drupal site