Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Dunkin' Donuts - Small Conference Room (this site has two conference rooms - our conference room is on the left as you come in)
9170 State Road 84 (south side of I-595 between Nob Hill and Pine Island)
Davie, FL 33324 USA
http://browarddrupal.org/gmaplocation
Chris and Jay have been giving all the presentations lately, so it is my turn to pull my weight. Lately I have been trying to get away from hosting Drupal on shared hosting, so I have been investigating the best way to setup Drupal on a VPS. Two months ago I attended the Palm Beach Drupal meetup and I put this question to John Studdard of http://BigCouchMedia.com and he recommended using Aegir. He was even nice enough to get us started by sharing the scripts he uses to set up his server. I have now been using those base scripts to set up Aegir 1.1 on a Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64-bit VPS server. I am using Linode and Mark Stahlbaum has been using the scripts and giving me feedback on his Rackspace server. I plan on presenting all of this at the next Broward Drupal meetup this Wednesday. The presentation will cover all the way from pointing your domain to your server, setting up your A records, etc. . . . all the way to running the automated Aegir install command and logging in as the Aegir user to download Drupal using Drush.
If you want to participate virtually, send me a Skype connect request to hectoriribarne. I will initiate the Skype call with the people that signed up for the event but are not present at the meetup shortly after 7pm.
Broward Drupal site: http://BrowardDrupal.org
Broward Drupal twitter: @BrowardDrupal
-Hector