Drupal experiences

Some random Drupal things that gave me a think.

For sites on shared hosting use the public file access; the speed gain thanks to compressing css is significant, not to mention many modules rely on it. With D7 both private and public access should be available concurrently. Check the development status here: http://drupal.org/node/166759.

When verifying a site for the Google Webmasters Tools you may have to uppercase 'google' in the file name. Check logs to see what the googlebot is really looking for. You may also make an alias or use the xmlsitemap module instead of actually creating the file.

If you install Global Redirects module, clean your browsers cache. Without that you may be unable to access some parts of your site, like /node. That's one of those things that are not so easy to debug... :)