Thanks Greg,<br><br>I understand there are a lot of firms offering this service, but what I'm really hoping for is someone who had a deep understanding of server and performance issues and can spend a couple of hours analyzing a site and making adjustments. <br>
<br>I'm not looking for a large shop that will charge thousands of dollars for this service, but a consultant who has expertise in this area and would charge fair market value for a few hours of their time. <br><br>By flat rate, I mean a willingness to give a price upfront based on the site specs and hosting situation. <br>
<br>Perhaps I'm wrong, but it seems that someone with this expertise, might be charging somewhere in $50 to $100 an hour range, and in just a couple of hours they should be able to accomplish quite a lot for a site. <br>
<br>This would be a really valuable service for those of us in the biz who might be very knowledgeable in other areas but don't know much about servers, bottlenecks, load balance, etc -- and don't really want to learn either. <br>
<br>Thanks,<br>Sam<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:43 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;">We hit this topic less than a month ago -<br>
<a href="http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/consulting/2009-March/003088.html" target="_blank">http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/consulting/2009-March/003088.html</a><br>
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And read the followups as well.<br>
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Also, charging for performance tuning as a flat rate is pretty<br>
interesting. If you find anyone who takes that arrangement please<br>
write back to the list about the experience.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Greg<br>
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On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Sam Cohen <<a href="mailto:sam@samcohen.com">sam@samcohen.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Does anyone out there offer a Drupal performance site and server tuning<br>
> service -- for a flat rate?<br>
><br>
> Ideally this would include analyzing a site, making changes to the site and<br>
> server as needed in order to improve performance.<br>
><br>
> I think this service would probably be useful to a lot of us, but I<br>
> understand there's that concern about sharing rates over an email list, so<br>
> please email me privately with what you would include and what you would<br>
> charge for such a service.<br>
><br>
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