<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">As I side note, I just spent a few minutes googling the phrase "chuffed to mint balls", since I had never heard that before. Thanks for adding that phrase to the collective Drupal vocabulary, Jeff. :-)<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 6, 2010, at 12:08 PM, <a href="mailto:jeff@ayendesigns.com">jeff@ayendesigns.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
<div style="direction: ltr;" text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt; ">Don't get me wrong, I'm
chuffed to mint balls about the D7 effort and the result, for many
reasons, not least of which is the amazing talent represented by it.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt; "><br>
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt; ">That said, I received a
letter
today from the hoster stating that my account was a performance problem
because it had over 1000 tables. Eight Drupal sites coud be over 1000
tables. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt; "><br>
I have a hosting account with 'unlimited domains' and up to 25
databases. I use the account both for hosting several live domains,
most multi site, as well as a test area that clients can access for
testing changes to existing domains. 8 Drupal sites could be over 1000
tables with the typical array of add-on modules, let alone that most of
these sites are doing e-commerce.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt; "><br>
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt; ">I've let them know that
they might want to consider a more meaningful indicator of performance
issues than a script that counts tables, since probably none of these
sites does more than 100 transactions per day. If they hold firm, I'll
blog (and post here) their name.<br>
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt; ">Jeff<br>
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