Drupal 6.x

Greetings.

I'm about to repurpose a server of mine for the task of running Apache+Drupal+MySQL for my department's Drupal-based web sites. (I'm finally giving up Plone!) But I'm relatively new to Linux server configuration, so I'm looking for a little guidance from those of you experienced in Linux and running a Drupal server.

The questions: What set of partitions are optimal, at what sizes, and -- here's the tricky part -- with what use of software RAID?

The raw material:

A nice fast HP server with dual 2.8GHz Xeon processors and 8GB RAM

1x 40GB SCSI drive

4x 80GB SCSI drives

Ubuntu Server (latest stable release as of whenever I actually get started here)

The use: a family of relatively low-demand web Drupal sites for a small university department and its projects, involving some but not loads of static file access (e.g., PDF libraries). Large storage capacity is nice, but not a big priority.

Previously, when running a Plone server, I had the entire "normal" Linux installation (Fedora Core 2 then) on the 40GB drive, and the four 80GB drives mounted as one supplemental RAID-5 array. I installed the server software (Apache, Zope+Plone) to that partition, with all datafiles.

That now strikes me as dumb. Sure, data access was fast and secure from drive failure, but all the boot, system, and swap stuff was vulnerable.

What do you find works best for upgrading large portions of a live site? simply setting the site to offline and upgrading module(s) ?

Right now we have contracts for many interesting drupal development assignments, which is beyond the capacity of our inhouse team.
We are looking for an extension to our closely knit development team.

We are flexible, you can choose to work from home as independent part time contrator, or you are welcome to join us as full time employees. The pay package is good for talented developers and an opportunity of a long term relationship in many of our ongoing projects. More importantly, it is fun to be a part of our team.

I'm looking for Drupal developers in or near Denver Colorado for ongoing project work. Initially for contract work which could lead to full time employment for the right persons. Please send me your rates, resume, sample work and availability for consideration. I'm open to mixing and matching skills/roles so you don't need to be all-in-one. Let me know strengths/weaknesses.

Skills needed: Theming and Templating, Module Mods, Custom Modules, CCK, custom views, good database skills, performance tuning/optimizing. Looking for mid to senior level developers with experience.

Good Day,

Is there any module in Drupal wherein the customer will sign up on the website and should pay for the membership so he/she can download anything?

Thanks,
JP

Hi!

I've just started testing Drupal 6.0 beta 2 on VAMP base (Vista Business, Apache2.2, PHP5, MySQL 5.0.45). I got everything running quite smoothly after installing all the required php extensions and all. Added a blog, a forum, some content. Status reports show all green.. but while trying to add my first poll, i got a following error: