Posted by John Nichel on 09/16/05 21:55

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.

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John C. Nichel
ÜberGeek
KegWorks.com
716.856.9675
john@kegworks.com

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