[consulting] managing many sites

[John Sechrest]

James Walker <walkah at walkah.net> writes:

 % >  I am starting to see that some modules make my site slower, even
 % >  when I don't have them turned on.

 % now that's an interesting claim. can you elaborate?

 I only have one data point, and I have to do a series of tests
 to get real data that is going to be useful.

 However, I have two UML sites, running on the same base machine
 http://www.oregonhightech.com
 http://sageq.gridvern.com

 But one is must faster than the other. And in fact, the sageq.gridvern.com
 site is past the threshold of usability. I was getting 4-8 second 
 response time with the original configuration. I was able to turn off
 services, and drop the load time to closer to a 2 seconds.... 

 But there is a speed issue with drupal.

 In fact, in the class that I ran, we had students who compared wordpress to 
 drupal for speed and found word press much faster. 

 And so It is interesting to see where the tradeoffs are. 





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