I think the client may have learnt that lesson! He has a linux / ruby on rails dev on board so I feel somewhat outgunned in respect of the whole webhost advice thingy that you so eloquently pointed out. The client had been with this company before I came along and then switched to a dedicated server last week while I upgraded to Drupal 6.
I am coming to the conclusion that the apache / php build used here is finely tuned towards Joomla sites to such an extent that their commonly used build does not support all functions of Drupal 6. You can see the stats for Joomla here: https://www.siteground.com/joomla-hosting.htm . Note that they have 250,000 sites, a regular supermarket. On Mar 12, 7:56 pm, Chris Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 07:24:40PM -0800, Kent Parker wrote: > > Well at the end of the day I wasn't responsible for choosing either of > > these hosting solutions for the given site. The client asked me if I > > would manage his site but I declined because I don't consider myself > > to be a professional webhoster and because of his past previous record > > of choosing webhosts (in which case his suggestion I do it is > > relevant!). I'm only prepared to sell my services as a php dev and > > not a linux dev. > > Stop me if you've heard this one before. Stakeholder is excited about > project, wants to contribute. Starts > sourcing ingredients - registering domains, purchasing hosting ("unlimited" > sounds like a good deal!), and so > on. They're only trying to help. > > Just like you can "help" by taking a few of your own ingredients along to a > flash restaurant :) > > Stranger still though is the unconscious attachment that can spring from > Stakeholder having found that hosting > company. I've seen people prepared to spend plenty $$$ to get a heavy duty > PHP app to run on mass/commodity > hosting, because the hosting was "such a great deal". > > I guess what I'm saying, Kent, is: even if you aren't taking care of that end > of things, you may be able to > help them avoid the potentially expensive mistake of picking cheap tools to > work with. Giving them some good > advice there will probably help keep you sane too. -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
