Iggep wrote:
John Nichel wrote:
Brian Dunning wrote:
I got a 12-hour invoice from a consultant who was tasked to do the
following:
- Install a Red Hat machine from absolute scratch for PHP/MySQL/Apache
- Copy over some MySQL databases
- Have mod_rewrite working via htaccess, and have wildcard DNS
I realize there are a billion different variables - I don't know
specifically what distribution he used, or any other variables - but
what are the chances that his invoice is reasonable? Assume that he
should know what he's doing without having to learn anything. Thanks...
Sounds about right. I just set up a box Tuesday....took me about 9
hours. Installed RHEL 3.0 AS, Apache 1.3.x, PHP 4.4.0, mod_perl,
MySQL 4.0.x, CVS, etc. from scratch. Wednesday I took about 4 hours
tweaking and locking down the box before I put it on the network.
How on earth could you take 9 hours to do this? Thats a ridiculously
long time to do something such as this. Well, perhaps I could see that
if you were fumbling around with no plan in mind. Just installing and
then going over things as you thought of them. But a consultant who
proffers to do this? No way. It shouldn't have taken even half of the
time billed and probably 1-2 hours less than even that.
Well then, enlighten us as to the plan you have in mind, and how it will
take you less than 4.5 hours.
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