Using drush on local machine is great. If you have problems where drush can't connect to DB of your drupal, It is probably because of the problem with PHP path so either try something like this
https://github.com/drush-ops/drush#additional-configurations-for-mamp
If your mysql server won't start in MAMP you should run
sudo killall -9 mysqld
and this will probably make it run again.
Sometimes you will have a WSOD and nothing to show for. One simple solution to get what is a problem is to insert the following lines into the Drupal's index.php, that should set PHP to report all errors.
I was going nuts over how to install CURL on 64 bit windows. I need it for some module and just enabling it from Wamp panel didn't work. So I searched for solutions and there are quite a few combos and solutions offered online but the only thing that worked for me and what was needed is
Everbody likes Drush, why wouldn't you. Anyway I copied cheat sheet from some PDF as this is a drupal dump site and this way I can find it quicker and make also some additions to it.
When available, there is a shorter version of the same command in parentheses.
cache clear (cc) Clear all caches.
cron Run all cron hooks.
Recently I Installed Drush to windows http://drush.ws/drush_windows_installer, scared that it won't work like it should I tried to update some site so I go to local site directory and try pm-update. I get this message
Reseting drupal password with latest drupal version has become much harder task, before you could just MD5 user table and add new password, now the "salt" is added so it is a bit harder. There are two ways, with mysql and shell access, or with php file. First you can find here
Before I talked about some troubleshooting and had some general discussions about caching
http://drupaldump.com/varnish-simple-troubleshooting-defaultvcl
Here is some simple troubleshooting for Varnish
This topic has always been a big pain in the ass for me. Drupal takes a lot of resources, which means money for hosting, you should at least have VPS to have some decent hosting for drupal, but not to have OOMing and high CPU usage all the time, you should use different caching systems.
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