[consulting] Drupal server requirements

[John Handelaar]

Clara Hurst wrote:
> We are writing a proposal for a client site with potential of  100,000 
> unique visitors per months.  The registered site users can be ranging 
> from a few thousands to 10,000.   However, we expect at any given time 
> there might be only up to a couple hundreds active users logged in,  the 
> activities that the logged in users will do will mainly be:  posting 
> content, private messaging/contacting each others and downloading some 
> white papers from the site etc.   We will use Organic Groups module so 
> user roles are controlled via OG, we will also have multi-lingual 
> support in the near future.
> 
> - Intel 3.2 GHz P4 processor
> - 2GB RAM
> - plenty disk space
> - RAID 1 for redundancy

Give it as much memory as you *possibly* can.  Throwing
lots of write queries (like you get in a busy forum)
at MySQL makes baby Jesus cry.

And ferchrissakes don't let Drupal's installer use
MyISAM.  You'll need InnoDB.




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