My current (as of 2024-12-22) setup is Static/CGI/PHP-5.4
Take site offline
drush vset maintenance_mode 1
get a status and use --debug to get a bit more info about what drush is doing
drush --debug status
Check system requirements
drush rq
Clear all caches and then run database updates
drush cc all
drush --debug updb
List all the enabled modules (and themes). Add the --pipe -p option for compact output
drush pml --status=enabled
Disable a bunch of stuff all at once (and let Drupal figure out the dependencies that also need to be disabled.)
drush dis admin_menu,backstretch,ctools,features,mollom,seo_checker,socialmedia,token,xmlsitemap
