General discussion

http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html

Would like to know people's opinions and personal experiences.

FrancisQ

So, who has got the lowest hardware running a "production" drupal site?

Thats what I thought now my old reliable pentium 166 with 160 MB mem will be replaced by a "newer" old machine. With more than 6000 nodes on a drupal 4.5.1 site, 150+ users and more than 100k hits per day (about 4k pageviews) and lots of other processes (iptables, DHCP, mail, DNS etc) I think this machine will rank rather high.

What kind of hardware are you running for our production site? And can you "beat" my old server?

Hi,

two days ago i've recreated my website from scratch using drupal and was amazed how well and easy the template system works.

but i have a problem, i`d like to post code, either in <code> or <pre> tags, but both have a problem:

<code> screw's up formating (html ignores leading spaces).
soltion: a module that does a preg replace that converts leading spaces to nbsp;s
but i'm not that familiar with preg replaces and especially how to write a new module that does this.

Is there a way to grant access to certain areas of a forum for certain group of people and not to others. For example if I want a VIP forum, how would I go about it? Thanks a million!

Ok, here's the deal. My site is running Mambo and I'm thinking I'm reaching my limit of options. The site is http://www.helloghost.com. I just had a second content writer start 'blogging', and I have another coming up whenever I can make room. Is Drupal designed with multiple users in mind? Is it *somewhat* easy to customize to my liking? Can I control whether or not users have different rights regarding content publishing? I think that's all the questions I have about Drupal.

Sorry for the n00b question. I found this simple upload module in the cvs modules list, but can't install because it would overwrite the existing upload.module. I obviously miss out something fundamental here. Please help me out! Tx!