Re: Drupal Hosting

David has some really good points, though assuming you're on
a decent
server the load issues shouldn't come up most days. It takes
quite a
busy site (at least 50,000 pages, 200,000 hits a day) to
really make a
noticeable difference on a mid sized server from what I've
seen. So
unless you have a really busy site I don't think you need to
worry
about too much traffic. There are of course a million other
variables
to can cause troubles...

Like the spammers. Drupal, Wordpress, etc. attract them like
you
wouldn't believe. Running things like mod_security on the
server and
all the plugins/modules available help quite a bit. At least
you won't
see the comments show up, but I see huge load spikes
beacause of bots
that attempt to leave thousands of comments all at once.

--------------
Blake Carver
LISHost.org
Web Hosting For Librarians
http://www.lishost.org

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Cloutman, David
<DCloutmanco.marin.ca.us> wrote:
> Without knowing anything about your organization, and
the amount of
> traffic you get, I think it isn't really possible to
give great advice
> for you. You need to figure our what kind of hosting is
appropriate for
> you, as there are different options with different
costs and benefits.
>
> The amount of traffic you'll get I think is a big
consideration in
> choosing a solution. If you're considering shared
hosting, you should
> think it through before making a committment. Running a
CMS like Drupal
> may create some scalability issues when you move your
site from beta
> testing to actual usage. In a shared environment, you
are really at the
> mercy of the hosting company, and you can only hope
that they haven't
> put you on a machine that isn't alreay over utilized. A
CMS powered site
> is going to require larger amounts of computing power
than a flat HTML
> site. So really, you need to make some guess as to both
the amount of
> traffic you'll be getting and the computing demands of
the functionality
> you'll be offering through your Drupal-based solution.
Then you can make
> an initial decision about whether you need dedicated
hosting, or if a
> shared solution a good fit.
>
> - David
>
> ---
> David Cloutman <dcloutmanco.marin.ca.us>
> Electronic Services Librarian
> Marin County Free Library
_______________________________________________
Web4lib mailing list
Web4libwebjunction.org
http://lists.we
bjunction.org/web4lib/