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

[zirafa]

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As far as shared hosting goes:


I wrote up a short one pager for requirements that I think people
should look for when searching for shared hosting:


[1] http://drupalart.org/node/5


And this thread on Drupal.org is a classic for gathering a list of low
cost hosts with specs:


[2] http://drupal.org/node/19674


Although I think the emphasis should be more on what to look for and
the usual tradeoffs (i.e. space for bandwidth) so people can make
informed decisions.  Having a list of maybe the 5 most popular shared
hosting environments that meet a certain set of requirements [1] would
be beneficial to a lot of people, I think.  The problem with [2] is
that it ends up being advertising space for everyone and their mom's
hosting company, and is 20 pages to sort through. Not useful.  Voting,
polling, or rating hosting companies would be a quick way to figure out
the best ones.


Farsheed




zirafa



Previous comments:
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Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:57:34 +0000 : Amazon

Drupal vendors need an authoritative one page guide that will help them
advise their clients on hardware requirements for running a Drupal
site.


Each category should have:
-hardware profile
-example site
-example traffic profile


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


2) Virtual server
Drive size, RAM, CPU, Number of DBs
Example sites Drupal.org? 


3) Own server
Single processor, RAM, Local DB, hosting adminstration costs, RAIDed
disks, Processor
Bryght.com?
Smart Campaigns?
Carlos Miranda Levy's site


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?


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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Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:16:32 +0000 : Amazon

In response to John Secrest's "Ok. How do you want to go about
structuring this document ,
getting the data, formating it and validating the data?"


Structure: 1 page, 5 sections.
Getting the data: I will post to CivicSpace lists and Drupal hosting
lists.
Verification, review by Drupal docs for validity
Formating: should be someone other than me.


Kieran