[drupal-docs] [task] Drupal hardware guide for clients

[John Sechrest]

Ok. How do you want to go about structuring this document , 
getting the data, formating it and validating the data?



Amazon <drupal-docs at drupal.org> writes:

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 %  Project:      Documentation
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 %  Component:    Marketing
 %  Category:     tasks
 %  Priority:     normal
 %  Assigned to:  Anonymous
 %  Reported by:  Amazon
 %  Updated by:   Amazon
 %  Status:       active
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 % Drupal vendors need an authoritative one page guide that will help them
 % advise their clients on hardware requirements for running a Drupal
 % site.
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 % Each category should have:
 % -hardware profile
 % -example site
 % -example traffic profile
 % 
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 % I suggest the following 5 categories.
 % 1) Shared hosting monthly
 % A list of low costs hosts, OS, DB, basic requirements.
 % Monthly fees
 % Example site: traffic profiles
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 % 2) Virtual server
 % Drive size, RAM, CPU, Number of DBs
 % Example sites Drupal.org? 
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 % 3) Own server
 % Single processor, RAM, Local DB, hosting adminstration costs, RAIDed
 % disks, Processor
 % Bryght.com?
 % Smart Campaigns?
 % Carlos Miranda Levy's site
 % 
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 % 4) Seperate web server and shared database
 % Single or dual processor web server connected to a large shared DB
 % server run by a vendor.
 % Vendors?
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 % 5)Single DB Server with multiple web servers
 % AirAmerica,
 % http://www.zattevrienden.be/forum- a quad xeon with 12 gbytes as a DB
 % server ,Eight frontends ,And two load balancers
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 % Amazon
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