[consulting] Sluggishness Concern

[Dave Maddox]

(Hi Greg!)

Sam,

I just posted a little dissertation for completeness and sharing my own 
experiences with these challenges, so I'll combine the ideas from it and 
the recommendation many are posting in one line: even if you find a fix 
for the site code, if performance issues get your attention you'll be 
glad you moved up from shared hosting as well.

N.B.: In case you were tempted, cloud computing has its challenges and 
risks also by the way.

Dave

Greg Knaddison a écrit :
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Sam Cohen <sam at samcohen.com> wrote:
>   
>> A dedicated server is definitely a possibility if the client's business
>> works out, but in the beginning they want to start with a shared host.
>>
>> So my question is, has anyone found any shared hosts that a
>> heavily-module-loaded Drupal 6 site can really fly on?
>>     
>
> Shared hosting is maybe $5 to $10/month.  A basic VPS is $20-$40.  How
> much consulting time did you spend trying to save them ~$30/month?
>
> The low cost of shared hosting is a false savings.  Security and
> performance implications of shared hosting make it a clear bad choice
> for anything beyond a static site (including sites you edit only once
> a week, or something like that).
>
> That said, the articles in http://groups.drupal.org/high-performance
> can help you enormously.
>
> Regards,
> Greg
>
>