[consulting] enormously scalable project

[Victor Kane]

Thanks to Greg and Khalid, very helpful,

Victor

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Greg Knaddison <
Greg at growingventuresolutions.com> wrote:

> 2009/3/21 Victor Kane <victorkane at gmail.com>:
> > Whereas I agree that people interested in this specific project should
> > contact Sam off list, on the other hand I would be extremely interested
> in
> > being able to locate a list of consultants/firms experienced in scaling /
> > very large scaling in general.
> >
> > Do we have the ability to look up that kind of info?
>
> My impression is that most firms dabble in this area to at least some
> extent.  You can get an idea of who has knowledge on the topic based
> on participation in http://groups.drupal.org/high-performance  (Josh
> Koenig, Khalid Baheyeldin, Steve Rude, Moshe Weitzman, and Robert
> Douglass stand out as strong contributors to the discussions in that
> group).
>
> However, there are four firms I'm aware of with specific focus on
> scalability:
>
> http://www.tag1consulting.com/ - "LAMP Performance and Scalability
> Experts" tap into experience running drupal.org and several other
> large scale sites to help their customers.  Also have some good
> resources (patches, articles) on their site.
>
> http://fourkitchens.com/ - Pressflow is their distribution of Drupal
> which has extra patches to make it perform/scale better in a MySQL
> only environment.  They also provide advice on hardware/software for
> scalability.
>
> http://www.workhabit.com/products/elastic2 - Provide services around
> scalable Drupal in Amazon's cloud, and historically have offered
> consulting on making Drupal scalable elsewhere as well.
>
> Acquia - nothing generally available yet, but Dries mentioned in the
> 2009 roadmap that they will offer a product code-named "Fields" to
> help people scale Drupal on Amazon's web service infrastructure -
> http://buytaert.net/acquia-2009-roadmap  They are probably offering a
> closed beta of this now - contact a sales rep if interested in trying
> it out.
>
> I don't have direct experience with enough of these firms to make any
> comments about which one to choose.  I think it's great we have so
> many choices and, from my interactions with the firms so far, many
> high quality choices.
>
> Regards,
> Greg
>
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