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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Amazon commented

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

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zirafa commented

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

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beginner commented

Isn't it the topic of the following section of the handbook?
http://drupal.org/requirements

If the above request is still wanted, you can create a child-page and start putting there the information you have.

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sepeck commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

This hasn't been worked on for two years. Closing unless someone is actually willing to work on it actively.

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mrP commented
Component: Marketing » Correction/Clarification
Assigned: Unassigned » mrP
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

I'd like to revisit this as it is a frequent requests from clients looking to manage their own Drupal server infrastructure.

Existing resources:

The goal as I see it is to be able to provide something in line with DigiDocFlow Server recommendations or Atlassian Confluence Server Hardware Requirements Guide.

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mrP commented
Component: Correction/Clarification » Missing documentation

reclassifying

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leehunter commented
Issue summary: View changes
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Since noone has worked on this for nine years, it can't be that urgent.
:)
Marking as closed.