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We finally decided to go to Apache Solr as our search solution. Basic installation and configuration went well out of the box (both solr engine and the Drupal module). The only thing left was waiting on the index to fill. Indexing is done on a cron run. Solr relies on Drupal's code Search engine, for hook_update_index invocation. So cron was set to be launched every 5 minutes instead of 1h to speed things up (650k+ nodes to index...). However something broke... Drupal logs started showing ...

We frequently have client projects asking for paid membership with Drupal websites. No single module exists at this point, so we developed our own setup procedures for this by combining a series of existing modules. Step-by-step instructions are included below: Specific modules used for paid membership: ‘Roles’ (uc_roles, as part of Ubercart) ‘Recurring Fees’ (uc_recurring) ‘Recurring Fees – Hosted’ ‘Authorize.net’ (as part of Ubercart, not CIM module) ‘Ubercart Views’ for ...

I'm now using Zend Server CE as my Drupal development environment on Windows. Previously, I used the WAMP package and was very satisfied with it due to its flexibility and stability. However, I noticed that recent projects began to get slower and slower. They had many modules enabled so by the completion time, they began to feel like real CPU eating monsters. (Details: I have a Core 2 Duo 3GHz with 4GB RAM – should be more than enough for a Drupal site, even a heavy one. PHP opcaches ...