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Aegir 0.1 Beta 2 Released
We're proud to announce the second and final beta release of the Aegir hosting system for Drupal.
Ægir is a new set of contributed modules for Drupal that aims to solve the problem of managing a large number of Drupal sites. It does this by providing you with a simple Drupal based hosting front end for your entire network of sites. To deploy a new site you simply have to create a new Site node. To backup or upgrade sites, you simply manage your site nodes as you would any other node.
This release is feature complete with the main roadmap of Aegir. It will allow you to install, back up, restore, enable, disable and delete your hosted sites. It is considered mostly production ready, and should be safe to run on a production system.
This release will become the first RC in the next week, if no more bugs are found. The only changes that will be allowed into this release
are documentation and bug fixes.
Aegir Billling Meeting Notes 22 October 2008
Last updated by oadaeh on Thu, 2008-10-23 14:22
Unofficial Notes from Aegir Billing Requirements Meeting Oct. 22, 2008
(Note Taker: Roland Tanglao)
Please edit this and add anything missing or fix errors!
Attendees:
- Adrian Rossouw (vertice, Raincity Studios aka 'RCS')
- Francis Pilon (piloni, RCS)
- Xiong (xiongxiong, RCS)
- EclipseGC (From the Worx company)
- Antoine Beaupré - (Anarcat, Koumbit)
- Roland Tanglao (rolandtanglao, RCS))
Notes
- nobody updated the wiki page with requirements http://groups.drupal.org/node/15973
- no ubercart folks in the meeting (held at irc.freenode.net #hm2 on IRC)
Aegir now supports multiple platforms, can provision Drupal 6 sites.
Over the last few days the Aegir repositories have seen a lot of action. Most notably is that we will
now be shipping our first release with working, but still experimental support for multiple platforms.
What this means, is that you will be able to manage multiple Drupal code bases with a single install of
the hosting front end.
To simplify the process of creating a new backend system, we have built the <a href='http://drupal.org/project/hostslave>HostSlave install profile.
To turn a new drupal checkout into a viable platform, you install the hostslave platform onto it, then go into the directory
and run the 'provision setup' command, and then add it as a platform node to your hostmaster. You will now be able
to provision sites on the new platform.
Aegir Billing Requirements
Last updated by Macronomicus on Fri, 2009-05-08 09:16
Aegir Billing Requirements
Here are the Billing Requirements based on experience from Bryght Light and Hostmaster 1 (the predecessor to Aegir). We welcome requirements from others who will be using Aegir. We will gather requirements and then map to Ubercart and then figure out how's doing what.
The requirements in the following section are not in any order.
Actions required from ubercart savvy people: Are any of the MUST requirements impossible in the ubercart version Aegir will be using? e.g. recurring billing with credit card entered AFTER 30 day free trial?
MUSTS
Read moreAegir meeting schedule
All meetings take place on : #aegir on irc.freenode.net
- Weekly development meeting : Fridays at 16:00GMT
- Daily scrum sessions : Monday through Friday at 16:00GMT
As a project we find it useful to meet regularly to discuss current progress and future goals. Due to the geographically dispersed nature of the team, it is impossible to meet at a time that would work for everyone, and as such you will probably find people in the IRC channel at most times.
Read moreAegir 0.1 BETA1 release.
We're proud to announce the first beta release of the Aegir hosting system for Drupal.
Ægir is a new set of contributed modules for Drupal that aims to solve the problem of managing a large number of Drupal sites. It does this by providing you with a simple Drupal based hosting front end for your entire network of sites. To deploy a new site you simply have to create a new Site node. To backup or upgrade sites, you simply manage your site nodes as you would any other node.
This release constitutes the feature complete state of our first release. It will allow you to install, back up, restore, enable, disable and delete your hosted sites. It also provides a very complete installation wizard to help you configure your server, and excellent support for importing sites you may already have running.
Read moreIntroduction to Aegir presentation from DrupalCon Szeged
I did a presentation at Drupalcon about Aegir, which included how to install it, what the requirements are and guide
through the user interface.
You can find flash and downloadable versions at archive.org and the slides from the presentation are also available.
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Aegir Drupal 6 hosting
Hi guys,
I'm just wondering if it is possible to manage Drupal 6.x sites with Aegir?
I see in the roadmap there's discussion regarding moving the front-end to D6. I'm not really fussed about that, but I would like to be able to deploy and manage 6.x sites with Aegir.
Great project. No doubt we'll help out if we end up using it.
Kind regards,
Ben
Workflow with version control?
Thank you Adrian for a great presentation at Drupalcon today! Since we didn't have time for questions I'd like to ask you quickly about something that I kept thinking about during your talk:
How does this fit into a workflow like mine where I develop and maintain sites using a SVN repository? I usually do both development and upgrading of my sites locally and then commit the changes before going to my staging or live sites and update them with SVN. Do dev or staging servers have a place in Aegir? How do you do it?
Read moreAegir user tour
Curious about what Aegir can do for you ? Click on the image to be taken to the Flickr slideshow.
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Selling hosted Drupal Web sites
I want to use Drupal as a paid service for building Web sites and communities. The Drupal instances and modules would reside on my server. So basically I would be acting as an Application Service Provider. If I pursue this endeavor I will likely end up using the Drupal core, some contributed modules, and several custom modules.
Does the GLP License require me to make available any of my custom modules, configurations or patches made to Drupal?
Read moreHostmaster 2 0.1 Alpha 3 Released
I have just published the 0.1 Alpha 3 release of the Hostmaster 2 site instance management platform.
This is a much smaller bug fix release, which also includes some documentation we missed in the previous release. This release has also been tested with Drupal 5.8.
I have also updated the installation wizard walkthrough, and the user interface walkthrough is still current.
Read moreA guided tour through the hostmaster installation wizard
I just spent some time documenting the new installation wizard for Aegir, and annotating it on this hostmaster wizard photoset on flickr.
Example screenshot :
New hostmaster feature : Queue Dispatcher
I've built a new API for use in hm2, which allows you to define queues that would like to get triggered. I've built the api so that defining 2 functions hook_hosting_queues and then the queue handler, gives you an impressive amount of free process accounting, and also configurability. 
What the queue dispatcher does, is it keeps a list of queues, when last they were triggered (dispatched), how frequently they need
Read moreHostmaster 2 0.1 alpha2 released.
I've just published the 0.1-alpha2 release of hm2, which features extensive changes from the first alpha release 3 weeks ago.
We are now nearly feature complete for the 0.1 release, but there's still a fair amount of loose ends to clean up.
Release announcements:
Hostmaster : http://drupal.org/node/275709
Provision : http://drupal.org/node/275710
Hosting : http://drupal.org/node/275708
Single Download:
Read moreManaging permissions on a shared Drupal hosting
I thought a bit about how to fix the problems regarding shared drupal hosting in the HM2 paradigm. I think I have a good solution and would like to have feedback on it before it gets implemented in full in HM2. But first things first...
Read moreUbercart -- HostMaster2 integration notes
This will be the page to describe potential ways of integrating ubercart for HostMaster2's billing/sales system. I'll update this page with my thoughts as I experiment.
Eclipse
Read moreHostMaster Easy One Page Install
We try to document here the most current install process of hostmaster and current issues. Please share your steps on installing and setting up HostMaster and related dependencies (Apache, MySQL, cron, etc.).
Those instructions are specific to the 0.1 release. For subsquent releases, see the INSTALL.txt file packaged with the hostmaster install profile.
Read moreAegir Roadmap
This is a brief outline of development plans for Aegir.
Note that all formal aegir releases (ie. not those marked, "alpha", "beta" or "release candidates" or "RC") are production-ready. We strive hard to maintain good code quality and Q/A by frequent releases and alpha/beta/RC stages before those formal releases so even if the releases are marked 0.x, it's not because they are not stable or ready, it's simply because the API is not stable (see below).
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