By yngens on

I have several Drupal websites running on my server, sometime unfortunately working too slow. After reading different relevant threads on Drupal.org, I have come to decision to start to use Lighttpd with FastCGI mode and APC. I am not good in Unix and not wanting to mess up currently working websites I would like to see if I can hire an experienced one who could convert my server smoothly.

My server details:

Kernel 2.6.9-22.ELsmp
Machine Type i686
Apache Verision 1.3.37 (Unix)
Perl Version 5.8.7 (Not sure if I need this at all)
PHP version 4.4.7
MySQL 4.1.22-standard

What would be the best price for doing this kind of job?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

Comments

bardkerbie’s picture

bardkerbie commented

1.) What distro? Are there any SELinux or other security concerns?
2.) How many is "several" sites?
3.) What is the server's hardware configuration? Ballpark is ok (i.e., Dell PowerEdge 610, purchased within last 9 months, Intel Xeon, etc.)
4.) Are you using any sort of caching or PHP acceleration?

yngens’s picture

yngens commented

1. I am sorry I did not get what is 'SELinux or other security concerns'.
2. I have 61 sites on my server in total, but not all of them are Drupal sites and mostly they have little traffic.
3. I hope this is what you asked for:

Server Information
Processor Information

Processor #1 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #1 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz
Processor #1 speed: 3192.584 MHz
Processor #1 cache size: 2048 KB

Processor #2 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #2 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz
Processor #2 speed: 3192.584 MHz
Processor #2 cache size: 2048 KB

Processor #3 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #3 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz
Processor #3 speed: 3192.584 MHz
Processor #3 cache size: 2048 KB

Processor #4 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #4 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz
Processor #4 speed: 3192.584 MHz
Processor #4 cache size: 2048 KB

Memory Information

Memory: 2072252k/2095664k available (1863k kernel code, 22472k reserved, 753k data, 176k init, 1178160k highmem)

System Information

Linux something.org 2.6.9-22.ELsmp #1 SMP Mon Sep 19 18:32:14 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Physcial Disks

hdc: LITE-ON CD-ROM LTN-489S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)

Current Memory Usage

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2073540 1292216 781324 0 10548 232592
-/+ buffers/cache: 1049076 1024464
Swap: 2048276 88724 1959552
Total: 4121816 1380940 2740876

Current Disk Usage

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 65G 35G 27G 57% /
/dev/sda1 99M 12M 83M 12% /boot
/dev/sda3 1012M 64M 897M 7% /tmp
none 1013M 0 1013M 0% /dev/shm
/tmp 1012M 64M 897M 7% /var/tmp

4. I tried to install eaccelerator but it did not work. Because I could not figure out either right configuration or activate php_mod. I even do not know where to look if my server has php_mod.

ebw’s picture

ebw commented

you have a recent four-way smp box with generic cache, memory, and disk for nodes of this type, and you've one (or more) instances of apache 1.3x serving up 60-some vhosts, and for reasons i suspect are doubtful, you want to solve some presenting problem, nominally "something slow" by replacing (nearly) everything.

diagnostically you could be lucky.

fwiw, i've run the koufax awards (periodic slashdot effect) along with half a dozen political campaigns, on half that hardware, albeit i've an oc-3 pipe so network bandwidth is never a constraint) and it has never occurred to me to switch from apache 2.x to anything else.

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info@zrix.com’s picture

info@zrix.com commented

Hi,
We are Drupal experts.
1. www.evakoss.com
2. http://drupal.org/user/157478
Please let us know a bit more about the project so we can bid
Thanks

Joe

joe@evakoss.com
www.evakoss.com
IM – joe@evakoss.com

RATE - $50/hr

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yngens commented

Thanks Joe for replying. The task is simple - I need to install Lighttpd with FastCGI mode and APC. It would be nice if you could also tell how many hours this work would take you.