[support] Dev Site Impact Impact on Server Resources

[Walt Daniels]

Except that even if you think you have zero visitors, you will still
get a lot of spider traffic, enough that you really have to work at
SEO and attract users before they dominate the spiders.

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Greg Knaddison
<Greg at growingventuresolutions.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com> wrote:
>> Greg and all,
>> Thanks.
>> To restate differently: though as little as one task can use significant
>> server resources, zero tasks cannot. And for a site to be "on", "ready" for
>> a visitor to visit, it doesn't have to run any tasks (though the very next
>> visitor could cause server issues if the task were intense enough). So
>> running Drupal is NOT like a computer operating system: it does not require
>> extra overhead (other than the basic overhead of the LAMP [or whichever]
>> stack) in order to be "on."
>
> I guess you want folks to evaluate that statement?
>
> That is mostly true. If you are using an opcode cache they will often
> store the code in RAM regardless of whether or not someone is
> currently visiting that site.
>
> I can't think of any other server resources that are consumed by a
> site with literally zero visitors.
>
> Greg
>
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