How do you improve Drupal performance on Dreamhost? It’s a trick question - the answer is move to MediaTemple.

If you’re reading this, then you have hit the new MediaTemple(dv)-hosted Realjenius.com - and you have met one much happier R.J.

I’ve previously talked about tuning Drupal for weblogs here previously. I’d like to elaborate more today, on specifically running Drupal on Dreamhost.

Over at Drupal.org a new Drupal 6 Status Update was just published. Several new changes are listed, many of them quite exciting:

1. Numerous installer improvements, including the ability to import translations for enabled modules automatically in the installer and the ability to specify numerous settings at install time (administrator (user number 1) credentials, clean URLs, timezone).

Choosing Drupal (or another similar technology such as Joomla) for producing a community managed website is generally a fairly easy process. Content management systems have become so mature and configurable that there is little they can’t do when it comes to a content-oriented presence.

In my new website infrastructure, I make heavy use of both Drupal and Gallery, both of which are PHP web applications, and by some definition of the term, both of which are content management systems.

The installation process for each is quite painless and, in a largely unheard of fashion for me (someone coming from the Java web-app world), both have graphical installers to guide you through the database creation process, as well as setting up the first mandatory users and content.