Re: [Off] How much time should this take?
| From: | John Nichel | Date: | Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:36:07 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [Off] How much time should this take? | ||
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Iggep wrote:
John Nichel wrote:Well then, enlighten us as to the plan you have in mind, and how it will take you less than 4.5 hours. -- John C. Nichel ÜberGeek KegWorks.com 716.856.9675 john@kegworks.comBrian Dunning wrote: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.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.