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What is the going rate for a drupal programmer to help optimize a site?
We are having problems with our drupal powered website. It keeps crashing, despite only about 50 simultaneous users, even with me throttling many of the modules and blocks. It's using a sick amount of our server resources and we are about to launch a 2nd site powered by drupal, which will be even busier than the first. If I can't get this under control, then I'm going to have to switch to a different system, which I don't want to do, because I really love drupal.
So, what's the going rate for someone who can help us with these issues? We aren't making money yet with our sites and we're already forking over money for a dedicated server, but if it was reasonable, we might be able to come up with a little dough. BTW, the current site is www.killerbetties.com.
Thanks!
Doesn't really sound
Doesn't really sound particularly like a Drupal problem? What's your servers spec? ...Operating system? What exactly is it that's crashing? You might be able to avoid paying out anything if the solution is obvious!
Pobster
Start here
For starters, check these pages and links on Drupal performance tuning and optimization for large web sites
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Drupal development and customization: 2bits.com
Personal: Baheyeldin.com
More Info ?
You may not need to hire someone to fix the problem. If you keep attending to this discussion thread for a few days and provide enough info about your workload, it may be possilbe to determine where the bottleneck is happening.
In addition to the server configuration, it would help to know about traffic to the database, number of transactions and types, particularly read/write ratios, file locks etc.
What modules do you have installed ? How intensively are they being used ?
Whatare the 50 users doing ? For example, are a fairly large percentage of them posting new messages to the latest discussion thread ?
Is there anything else that might be an important resource hog ?
- Bill
Noticing that you're using
Noticing that you're using 4.7.x and not the newer 5.x, if you've too many modules in your modules directory (enabled or not, doesn't matter) then you could be running out of memory.
Pobster
Thanks everyone. I deleted a
Thanks everyone.
I deleted a bunch of modules, see if that helps. I've got throttle installed and have most blocks and several modules turned off during throttle. There doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason as for when it crashes. I've had 200 users on at once and it's been fine, then at 80, it crashes. I think it must have something to do with comment posting, since that's the activity the 80 folks are participating in. The 200 are just reading, I think. Is there something I can do with comment posting?
I'm really about to break down and either hire a programmer/server person or something.