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By gkrishna on
I have a friends who are interested in knowing the consultation fees for drupal ie., installation, configuration, and maintanence. The basic fees for any site to run on drupal.
Ofcourse, for custom module development i believe the consultant can decide depending on his experience and knowledge.
Well, i did a search here to find the above information but i couldnt get any relevant information.
The most important thing i believe is to have a creative license logo in the site footer and also to acknowledge drupal.
I saw lot of people are offering consultation here, but there should some guidance on drupal.org regarding the fee structure.
Can someone throw light on this?
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There is no such basic fee, y
There is no such basic fee, you have to negotiate with the consultant you want to hire. Drupal hosting should be abotu as expensive as other PHP hosting, too.
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Well, how will i know someone
Well, how will i know someone is reasonable or not?
I have seen that web hosting providers mention their prices (like opensourcehost etc.,)
Normally, the consultant duty starts after he has the webhost.
A consultant says $xxx/hr.
"Drupal hosting should be abotu as expensive as other PHP hosting, too."
Can you push more on the above line?
There should be some fair price.
This would be helpful to know if someone is charging exorbitant fees.
An approximate idea of the fees would be much helpful.
If you find somebody's rate r
If you find somebody's rate reasonable depends on yourself (and possible alternatives). It is a free market after all.
A webhosting account for basic Drupal hosting should be available for less than EUR 10/month, I guess. Depends on hard disk space, bandwidth and a number of other things.
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It is not so much drupal cons
It is not so much drupal consulting in partcular that you will be being charged for. It dependin on the contractor or organisation that you hire. I know that here in Australia this can range from between $AU60/hr and $AU260/hr depending on how much you want to pay, and exactly what type of work that you want them to do, usually pure consulting, and analyst work will cost the most, and straight programming is generally less.
However some consultants can program in php and do web design, they may not know much about drupal, and may cost you a bit more to get upto speed.
It does however depend on where you are and how much you are willing to pay.
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You know, it is a Content Management System (CMS), a Content Management Framework (CMF) and finally, it's useable as a Web Application Framework (WAF).
My clients do not come and say "I want a Drupal site". They say "I need this" maybe "by this time" and then we agree upon a price. They could not care less whether I will use Drupal or even PHP.
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maybe a market board for drupal developers
This is a true thing. Despite Drupal's well deserved fame in our circles the average businessperson who needs x or y is usually working from abstract knowledge gained from just using the web. In other words they have a good idea of what can be done but little concept of how and more on point what to use to get it done. So they are in need of a general consultant who may or may not know much about Drupal. Setting fees specifically for Drupal would be ill advised as its the same kind of work in their minds. Indeed it is at that.
But still it would be a good idea to help people find a developer who is adept at Drupal as well as the rest. So now that brings us to the possible creation of a market board (e.g. scriptlance etc.) that is specific to Drupal. One could do this and it might get some traction. I know people who would have used it at one point or another. The point would be that one would be contracting someone who is proficient in "general" web application work AND Drupal so if Drupal was the way to go they would not be paying for getting the consultant up to speed as noted above.
On that is there a way or a mod that allows for people to rate and item.. and then aggregates and averages the ratings and spits out that basis for that rating.
it would be useful for such a market board for Drupal Developers...
I would be glad to supply all the server space and bandwidth needed (reasonably) to create and maintain such a board
if someone out there wants to invest the day or two in getting it up and going. It would take having a coherent rating system and would need to allow developers to post themselves in a way that classifies their specialties... For instance some of them are adept at working with streaming media ... or content management .. or education...