<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 28-Mar-06, at 8:20 AM, Clara Hurst wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> Boris Mann wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE cite="mid1457111B-F5D7-40B7-B512-E7B9F9FF8C6F@bryght.com" type="cite">Hope everyone is finding this useful/interesting....tricky things like "What sort of hardware/architecture should I recommend to my clients?" </BLOCKQUOTE> <FONT size="-1"><FONT face="Arial">I certainly found the debates and discussion of this thread is interesting - even for some off topic ones!<BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Great!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><snip><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT size="-1"><FONT face="Arial"></FONT></FONT><UL> </UL> <SMALL>Back to my first point of site profile, this is one of the sites that we have <A class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://afrotalk.biz">http://afrotalk.biz</A>, 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 ...<BR></SMALL></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>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.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SMALL> 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 :-).</SMALL></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>I'm still looking for help in filling out this information: <A href="http://dev.bryght.com/t/wiki/ForresterCorpBlogging">http://dev.bryght.com/t/wiki/ForresterCorpBlogging</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>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.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers,</DIV><BR>--<BR><DIV> <DIV>Boris Mann</DIV><DIV>Vancouver 778-896-2747 San Francisco 415-367-3595</DIV><DIV>SKYPE borismann</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.bryght.com">http://www.bryght.com</A></DIV> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>