[consulting] Drupal server requirements

[Boris Mann]

On 28-Mar-06, at 8:20 AM, Clara Hurst wrote:

> Boris Mann wrote:
>> Hope everyone is finding this useful/interesting....tricky things   
>> like "What sort of hardware/architecture should I recommend to my   
>> clients?"
> I certainly found the debates and discussion of this thread is  
> interesting -  even for some off topic ones!

Great!

<snip>
> Back to my first point of site profile, this is one of the sites  
> that  we have http://afrotalk.biz, a pretty basic drupal site run  
> on a VPS and I have done zero tuning on the system. With constant  
> 800-1000 visitors I have not seen the system go any higher than 15%  
> of the cpu usage (a dual cpu system), and  memory is always about  
> 85% with  512 RAM.  I'm thinking what a waste, with some tuning  I  
> can put at least 5  more sites on the same system given the VPS  
> provider allows us to burst up to 2G RAM ...

Well, that just bolsters your profit margins (maybe...again, comments  
on hardware vs. cost of your consulting time). Why not work your  
estimates to give comfortable headroom and growth for the customer  
and provision them 1:1 against a VPS for all but the smallest of sites.

> Anyhow, if we are talking about bringing drupal to the corporate  
> world -- which I feel it has a huge potential and very passionate  
> about it, we ought to collect some site profile data that will help  
> us to  "propose in confident" . Perhaps in the future  this  
> "consulting" list can act as a sales department to the  
> "development" list to bring some funding in  :-).

I'm still looking for help in filling out this information: http:// 
dev.bryght.com/t/wiki/ForresterCorpBlogging

We're working on defining a "corporate blogging" profile that we'll  
be sharing soon...it's a fairly simple implementation, but building  
up a library of repeatable solutions with Drupal opens people's eyes  
to what is possible.

Cheers,

--
Boris Mann
Vancouver 778-896-2747 San Francisco 415-367-3595
SKYPE borismann
http://www.bryght.com

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