[haiku-web] Drupal optimizations results (and request for admin-password)

Hi there,

I finally have the time to apply the results of the Drupal optimization 
process to vmweb (and would like to update the system from opensuse-11.1 to 
11.3 along the way).

As for the results of the Drupal & webserver optimization sessions, the 
benchmarks have shown that by far the largest impact on Drupal performance 
has the installation of the 'boost' module, which redirects 
non-authenticated access to dynamic (i.e. php) pages to static 
(cache-)files. 

The choice of webserver doesn't really have much of an effect, as the 
notable differences between them are restricted to the speed of static page 
delivery. Those, however, are immensely fast anyway, when compared to the 
dynamic pages involving php. On top of that, the 'boost' module would 
require unsupported adjustments for any webserver other than Apache. As a 
result, I'd like to stick with Apache + fcgid. 
Please note that switching from mod_php to fcgid has already yielded a huge 
performance increase under load, as the amount of memory used has been 
vastly reduced.

Concerning adjustment of the installed Drupal modules, vmweb-test has seen 
these changes:
        - replace dblog with syslog (logging to filesystem is faster)
        - deactivate googleanalytics (slow, problematic by nature)
        - deactivate statistics (we use a log analyzer [webalizer] instead)
        - deactivate geshifilter (as I don't think we actually use its features)
        - install and activate securepages and securepages_prevent_hijack (which
      protect session cookies by keeping them limited to the encrypted 
      channel, i.e. https)

With these changes, benchmarks have indicated performance increases more 
than 30-fold for anonymous dynamic pages (caused by boost) and much smaller 
performance increases during other access paths. So we really want the 
boost module ;-)

In order to apply the changes, I need to be able to administrative access 
to our Drupal on vmweb. Could someone in the know please put the password 
for Drupal's admin user into a root-only file on vmweb, such that I can 
fetch it from there?

Please shout if you think any of the intended changes don't make sense.

cheers,
        Oliver
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