How many modules is advisable in a shared hosting site?
Rosamunda - October 3, 2006 - 14:34
Hello,
I wanted to know what do you think about it... because I´m creating a site with some core drupal modules active, and I´ve installed all these:
attachment
casetracker
devel
excerpt
filemanager
flexinode
gsitemap
image
img_assist
logintoboggan
paging
print
search_config
tac_lite
userplus
views
webform
buddylist
flag_content
profile_pages
profile_visit
subscriptions
user_readonly
simplenews
What do you think?
Thanks!
tough question
It's going to be hard for anyone to answer your question without knowing the configuration of your server. How many other sites are hosted on it? What is the hardware configuration? What is the server load?
You may want to get with your hosting provider to get these questions answered first.
As for "how many are advisable" - your list doesn't look so bad - ususally the ecommerce modules and/or the CivicCRM modules are the ones you see giving people grief in a shared enviornment - simply because there are a lot of them.
-mike
Thanks for your reply mike!
I don´t know the exact configuration of my server, but I know that they don´t share it with many people.
But I have some fears about this. I think that Drupal can crash because of adding so many eggs in the same basket.
Again, many thanks for answer to my post!
Rosamunda
I run 93 contrib modules in
I run 93 contrib modules at this time in my sandbox on site5's shared hosting environment (the silver plan to be exact) with a memory setting of 24MB in php.ini. I've yet to run into a problem with memory on this shared host. This sandbox gets very very little traffic which i suppose could effect performace if it were a production site. No throttles are in place.
I don't yet have the ecommerece module installed but it is planned for addition as well as the lm_paypal module. I add many modules to my sandbox to help aide me in what modules are compatible with each other. I would be more the happy to supply my list of modules, if necessary.
the devel.module is a fantastic module for figuring out what modules are using what resources as well as how many querries and the like are being called. I highly suggest adding this tool to your sandbox to help diagnose perticular things. The selenium.module aids in these types of situations also.
Thanks for your tip!
Geee... I´m very relieved to know that!
There´s a long road to get those 93 modules of yours!! hehe
Anyway, I must confess that I´ve installed some time ago the devel module, but didn´t used to anything but reinstall a module. It has so many useful uses!
I didn´t know about the selenium module. I´m gonna install it right away!
Thank you very much for your reply! I was very afraid of what could happen. I´ve already have a sandbox, and everything seems pretty normal in there, but (even when I have a database backup) I was a bit scared of what could happen. I was even thinking in creating a multi site installation instead of putting all together (dunno if that could be helpful to relief the server though).
Thankfully I don´t have to install the CiviCRM nor the ecommerce module (at least not yet, hehe), so I feel much better.
Thank you very much! Both of you guys! I really appreciate your thoughts and tips about this issue.
BTW, I think I did get your tips VeryMisunderstood...
hehe... little joke.... sorry I´m really tired and start to talk nonsense.... :-)
Rosamunda
Buenos Aires | Argentina
www.ligadelconsorcista.org