{"id":2882,"date":"2011-02-27T08:01:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T22:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=2882"},"modified":"2018-12-11T18:18:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T08:18:08","slug":"capacity-plan-quickly-or-properly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2011\/02\/27\/capacity-plan-quickly-or-properly\/","title":{"rendered":"Capacity planning \u2013\u00a0quickly or properly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes time to consider refreshing the hardware in your environment, do you want do do it quickly, or properly?<\/p>\n<p>Because here&#8217;s the thing: If you want to do it quickly \u2013 if you feel rushed, and want to just get it done ASAP, not seeing the point of actually doing a thorough analysis of your sizing and growth requirements, here&#8217;s what you do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Guess at the number of clients you&#8217;re going to backup.<\/li>\n<li>Guess at the amount of data you&#8217;ll be backing up from first implementation.<\/li>\n<li>Guess at the growth rate you&#8217;ll experience over the X years you want the system to last for.<\/li>\n<li>Guess at the number of staff you&#8217;ll need to manage it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then, once you&#8217;ve got those numbers down, multiply each one by at least 4.<\/p>\n<p>Then, ask for twice the budget necessary to achieve those numbers \u2013 just to be on the safe side.<\/p>\n<p>If you think I&#8217;m joking \u2013 I&#8217;m not; I&#8217;m deadly serious. Deciding to skip an architecture phase where you actually review your needs, your growth patterns, your staffing requirements, etc., because <em>you&#8217;re in a hurry<\/em> is a costly and damning mistake to make. So if you&#8217;re going to do it, you may as well try to make sure you can survive the budget period.<\/p>\n<p>And if asking for that much budget scares the heck out of you \u2013 well, there is an alternative: conduct a proper system architecture phase. Sure, it may take a little longer to get things running, or cost a little more time\/money to get the plan done, but once you&#8217;ve got that done, it&#8217;ll be gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes time to consider refreshing the hardware in your environment, do you want do do it quickly, or&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5,13],"tags":[1241,181,195,196,971],"class_list":["post-2882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-backup-theory","category-general-thoughts","tag-architecture","tag-budget","tag-capacity","tag-capacity-plan","tag-system-architecture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKpIN-Ku","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7524,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions\/7524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}