Also at DrupalCon there was a talk about Drush, seemed cool for deployments but I haven't had a chance to investigate further.<br><br>Actually there's a pretty long list of stuff I heard about at DrupalCon that I haven't had a chance to dig into further.<br>
<br>My hosting packages are pretty cheap right now ~20mo, but the ones I'm hosting (as opposed to the larger custom sites the client usually host in house) are all standard, their multi-site'd so code rollout happens across all of them, although I do have to manually run the update script.<br>
<br>I'm hoping Drush will handle that as well.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Brian Vuyk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@brianvuyk.com">brian@brianvuyk.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;">Sam,<br>
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I put my clients on a monthly 'maintenance' contract to handle these things. Generally, 3-4 hours, although some clients want more, some less.<br>
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What I've done is create a test site which includes a copy of every module I've used on a client's site, along with any custom stuff I've used that depends on certain module functionality. I monitor that site for updates, and when a module is updated, I update the test site for, make sure that any client-specific monkeying I've done works, then roll it out to the clients.<br>
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It takes a bit of time up front to replicate some stuff on a testsite in addition to the client's site... but it pays off because you can catch any bugs introduced by modules ahead of time.<br>
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This approach is starting to get a bit a bit clunky though. I am starting to think about using SimpleTest, and writing my own tests to test for client-specific functionality to ensure that the module upgrades are a bit less painless.<br>
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Sam Cohen wrote:<br>
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Hi all,<br>
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I am now going to be offering all my clients security and module updates as an ongoing service -- I know. I should have done it all along. <br>
I'm curious how others structure this service. Do most of you do it at a regular interval (to cover modules) or just every time there's a new release. <br>
My thought is to offer an option where every time there is a Drupal release I will install it and at that time I will check for any module updates and install those as well. But pricing wise, it's tricky, because what if you run into trouble due to a module upgrade that leads to a conflict. Not to mention, the time you should take for testing ? <br>
It seems like the safest way to offer this service is to just say you will bill hourly for whatever time it takes every time there is a release. Is that how others do it? If not, how much time to you typically charge/take for this. <br>
Thanks,<br>
Sam<br>
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