Posted by John Nichel on 09/16/05 22:36

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

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