Thanks to Greg and Khalid, very helpful,<br><br>Victor<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Greg Knaddison <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Greg@growingventuresolutions.com">Greg@growingventuresolutions.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">2009/3/21 Victor Kane <<a href="mailto:victorkane@gmail.com">victorkane@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> Whereas I agree that people interested in this specific project should<br>
> contact Sam off list, on the other hand I would be extremely interested in<br>
> being able to locate a list of consultants/firms experienced in scaling /<br>
> very large scaling in general.<br>
><br>
> Do we have the ability to look up that kind of info?<br>
<br>
</div>My impression is that most firms dabble in this area to at least some<br>
extent. You can get an idea of who has knowledge on the topic based<br>
on participation in <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/high-performance" target="_blank">http://groups.drupal.org/high-performance</a> (Josh<br>
Koenig, Khalid Baheyeldin, Steve Rude, Moshe Weitzman, and Robert<br>
Douglass stand out as strong contributors to the discussions in that<br>
group).<br>
<br>
However, there are four firms I'm aware of with specific focus on scalability:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.tag1consulting.com/" target="_blank">http://www.tag1consulting.com/</a> - "LAMP Performance and Scalability<br>
Experts" tap into experience running <a href="http://drupal.org" target="_blank">drupal.org</a> and several other<br>
large scale sites to help their customers. Also have some good<br>
resources (patches, articles) on their site.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://fourkitchens.com/" target="_blank">http://fourkitchens.com/</a> - Pressflow is their distribution of Drupal<br>
which has extra patches to make it perform/scale better in a MySQL<br>
only environment. They also provide advice on hardware/software for<br>
scalability.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.workhabit.com/products/elastic2" target="_blank">http://www.workhabit.com/products/elastic2</a> - Provide services around<br>
scalable Drupal in Amazon's cloud, and historically have offered<br>
consulting on making Drupal scalable elsewhere as well.<br>
<br>
Acquia - nothing generally available yet, but Dries mentioned in the<br>
2009 roadmap that they will offer a product code-named "Fields" to<br>
help people scale Drupal on Amazon's web service infrastructure -<br>
<a href="http://buytaert.net/acquia-2009-roadmap" target="_blank">http://buytaert.net/acquia-2009-roadmap</a> They are probably offering a<br>
closed beta of this now - contact a sales rep if interested in trying<br>
it out.<br>
<br>
I don't have direct experience with enough of these firms to make any<br>
comments about which one to choose. I think it's great we have so<br>
many choices and, from my interactions with the firms so far, many<br>
high quality choices.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Greg<br>
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