[consulting] Does anyone offer Drupal performance tuning services? (Arnold)

Arnold Leung arnold at appnovation.com
Sat Apr 25 16:28:20 UTC 2009


Hi Sam,

I dont think that you will be able to find someone with deep domain
knowledge in Drupal scalability and optimization at $50-$100/hr. There are a
lot of people who say they can scale Drupal and optimize well, but there are
only a few that I know of that is well known across the Drupal community to
be able to do so. I think that for someone to be able to scale and optimize
Drupal effectively, the person or shop must have experience dealing with
some of the biggest Drupal sites. Most people who work on these big projects
charge over $100/hr. There are only a few shops or contractors who I know of
who have done this.

Arnold


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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:23:20 +0200
> From: "FGM" <fgm at osinet.fr>
> Subject: Re: [consulting] Does anyone offer Drupal performance tuning
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> AFAIK, Khalid at 2Bits consulting does.
> http://2bits.com/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sam Cohen" <sam at samcohen.com>
> To: "A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers"
> <consulting at drupal.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 4:17 PM
> Subject: [consulting] Does anyone offer Drupal performance tuning services?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone out there offer a Drupal performance site and server tuning
> service -- for a flat rate?
>
> Ideally this would include analyzing a site, making changes to the site and
> server as needed in order to improve performance.
>
> I think this service would probably be useful to a lot of us, but I
> understand there's that concern about sharing rates over an email list, so
> please email me privately with what you would include and what you would
> charge for such a service.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:30:36 -0400
> From: Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com>
> Subject: Re: [consulting] Does anyone offer Drupal performance tuning
>        services?
> To: "A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting
>        providers"      <consulting at drupal.org>
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>
> Yes, we do that.
>
> But not for a flat rate, unless we are managing the server for you, and
> have
> installed the software on the server(s) from the ground up. Or we can move
> your site and do that in the process as well. This is more geared to high
> traffic sites, and is not cost effective for smaller sites.
>
> If you want a one off site performance assessment we do that as well.
> Details are here:
>
>
> http://2bits.com/services/drupal-performance-assessment-tuning-and-optimization.html
>
>
> http://2bits.com/services/drupal-server-installation-configuration-and-tuning.html
>
> You can also read our articles here and do much of that yourself.
>
>
> http://2bits.com/articles/drupal-performance-tuning-and-optimization-for-large-web-sites.html
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:23 AM, FGM <fgm at osinet.fr> wrote:
>
> > AFAIK, Khalid at 2Bits consulting does.
> > http://2bits.com/
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Cohen" <sam at samcohen.com>
> > To: "A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers"
> <
> > consulting at drupal.org>
> > Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 4:17 PM
> > Subject: [consulting] Does anyone offer Drupal performance tuning
> services?
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone out there offer a Drupal performance site and server tuning
> > service -- for a flat rate?
> >
> > Ideally this would include analyzing a site, making changes to the site
> and
> > server as needed in order to improve performance.
> >
> > I think this service would probably be useful to a lot of us, but I
> > understand there's that concern about sharing rates over an email list,
> so
> > please email me privately with what you would include and what you would
> > charge for such a service.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sam
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > consulting mailing list
> > consulting at drupal.org
> > http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/consulting
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Khalid M. Baheyeldin
> 2bits.com, Inc.
> http://2bits.com
> Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.
> Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. --  Edsger W.Dijkstra
> Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. --   Leonardo da Vinci
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> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:04:34 -0700
> From: Jerad Bitner <sirkitree at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [consulting] Does anyone offer Drupal performance tuning
>        services?
> To: kb at 2bits.com,       "A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal
>        service/hosting providers"      <consulting at drupal.org>
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> Tag1 Consulting - http://tag1consulting.com/
> Unsure of rates.
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes, we do that.
> >
> > But not for a flat rate, unless we are managing the server for you, and
> > have installed the software on the server(s) from the ground up. Or we
> can
> > move your site and do that in the process as well. This is more geared to
> > high traffic sites, and is not cost effective for smaller sites.
> >
> > If you want a one off site performance assessment we do that as well.
> > Details are here:
> >
> >
> >
> http://2bits.com/services/drupal-performance-assessment-tuning-and-optimization.html
> >
> >
> >
> http://2bits.com/services/drupal-server-installation-configuration-and-tuning.html
> >
> > You can also read our articles here and do much of that yourself.
> >
> >
> >
> http://2bits.com/articles/drupal-performance-tuning-and-optimization-for-large-web-sites.html
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:23 AM, FGM <fgm at osinet.fr> wrote:
> >
> >> AFAIK, Khalid at 2Bits consulting does.
> >> http://2bits.com/
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Cohen" <sam at samcohen.com>
> >> To: "A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers"
> <
> >> consulting at drupal.org>
> >> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 4:17 PM
> >> Subject: [consulting] Does anyone offer Drupal performance tuning
> >> services?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Does anyone out there offer a Drupal performance site and server tuning
> >> service -- for a flat rate?
> >>
> >> Ideally this would include analyzing a site, making changes to the site
> >> and server as needed in order to improve performance.
> >>
> >> I think this service would probably be useful to a lot of us, but I
> >> understand there's that concern about sharing rates over an email list,
> so
> >> please email me privately with what you would include and what you would
> >> charge for such a service.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Sam
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> consulting mailing list
> >> consulting at drupal.org
> >> http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/consulting
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Khalid M. Baheyeldin
> > 2bits.com, Inc.
> > http://2bits.com
> > Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.
> > Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. --  Edsger W.Dijkstra
> > Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. --   Leonardo da Vinci
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > consulting mailing list
> > consulting at drupal.org
> > http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/consulting
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:43:00 -0600
> From: Greg Knaddison <Greg at GrowingVentureSolutions.com>
> Subject: Re: [consulting] Does anyone offer Drupal performance tuning
>        services?
> To: "A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting
>        providers"      <consulting at drupal.org>
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>
> We hit this topic less than a month ago -
> http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/consulting/2009-March/003088.html
>
> And read the followups as well.
>
> Also, charging for performance tuning as a flat rate is pretty
> interesting.  If you find anyone who takes that arrangement please
> write back to the list about the experience.
>
> Regards,
> Greg
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Sam Cohen <sam at samcohen.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone out there offer a Drupal performance site and server tuning
> > service -- for a flat rate?
> >
> > Ideally this would include analyzing a site, making changes to the site
> and
> > server as needed in order to improve performance.
> >
> > I think this service would probably be useful to a lot of us, but I
> > understand there's that concern about sharing rates over an email list,
> so
> > please email me privately with what you would include and what you would
> > charge for such a service.
> >
>
>
> --
> Greg Knaddison
> http://knaddison.com | 303-800-5623 | http://growingventuresolutions.com
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:34:48 -0400
> From: Sam Cohen <sam at samcohen.com>
> Subject: Re: [consulting] Does anyone offer Drupal performance tuning
>        services?
> To: "A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting
>        providers"      <consulting at drupal.org>
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>
> Thanks Greg,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> By flat rate, I mean a willingness to give a price upfront based on the
> site
> specs and hosting situation.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Greg Knaddison <
> Greg at growingventuresolutions.com> wrote:
>
> > We hit this topic less than a month ago -
> > http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/consulting/2009-March/003088.html
> >
> > And read the followups as well.
> >
> > Also, charging for performance tuning as a flat rate is pretty
> > interesting.  If you find anyone who takes that arrangement please
> > write back to the list about the experience.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Greg
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Sam Cohen <sam at samcohen.com> wrote:
> > > Does anyone out there offer a Drupal performance site and server tuning
> > > service -- for a flat rate?
> > >
> > > Ideally this would include analyzing a site, making changes to the site
> > and
> > > server as needed in order to improve performance.
> > >
> > > I think this service would probably be useful to a lot of us, but I
> > > understand there's that concern about sharing rates over an email list,
> > so
> > > please email me privately with what you would include and what you
> would
> > > charge for such a service.
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Greg Knaddison
> > http://knaddison.com | 303-800-5623 | http://growingventuresolutions.com
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