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Wondering just how fast Drupal 6 is? So was I, so I set up a quick Drupal 6 demo site on another domain of mine, and generated a bunch of random content using the Devel module. The site has a mix of 1000 pages and stories, most of which have 5 comments and 5 taxonomy terms assigned to them. Full caching and compression is enabled. Clean URLs are working and I'm using the default .htaccess file.

Give it a test run, I think you'll be impressed with the speed. The demo is hosted on the same AN Hosting account as this site, so if you like what you see, I recommend checking them out.

Got a spambot or scraper constantly showing up in your server logs? Or maybe there's another site that's leeching all your bandwidth? Perhaps you just want to ban a user from a certain IP address? In this article, I'll show you how to use .htaccess to do all of that and more!

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Drupal's clean URLs give it a good reputation when it comes to SEO, but there's a lot more you can do under the hood to improve Drupal's search engine friendliness. Today I will show you some Drupal SEO tips to help you avoid duplicate content and boost your search engine ranking.

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Is your Drupal site slow? Are you losing traffic because of high load times? Your database could be the problem. Read on to find out why your site is lagging, and see how the right server configuration can speed it up.

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I have discovered several critical security flaws in the Drupal Audio module, one of which could allow anyone to upload and execute arbitrary code. The issues all stem from the getID3 library, an open source package used by the Audio module to read metadata from files. Included with the library are a set of demo files which, when properly manipulated, can be used to read, delete, upload, and run files without permission.

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