This session is for people who want to make their sites fast. REALLY FAST! Even if you're running on a leased 486 in your neighbor's basement, we can still have you serving up pages faster than you can say "PHP."

Now there's about 82,000 things that can affect the performance of your website. We may not have time to go through all of them, but here's what's on the agenda (don't worry if you don't know what any of these things mean, that's the point of the session):

* Hosting Options
* Drupal's Cache Mechanisms
* Content Delivery Networks
* APC
* Memcached
* Varnish
* Static Caching (boost)
* ETags, gzip-compression and other various server tweaks
* Front end techniques such as sprites, compressing images, and minifying code
* Benchmarking (are we going faster yet?)
* We'll also cover some case studies such as a Drupal site that delivers over 1tb of video throughout the world.

Some of the things on this list are so easy to implement that you'll kick yourself for having a slow site. When you're done with this session your website's visitors and search engines will thank you for the blistering fast speed.