pantheon

Hi All,

Wondering if anyone has any experience/opinions on Pantheon vs. Rackspace managed cloud for running high performance Drupal?

My initial thoughts are that Pantheon probably offers the superior developer experience for Drupalers, but Rackspace likely has more flexibility in terms of backend configuration at a server level for real experts (as well as being slightly cheaper?).

Unfortunately for me, Pantheon doesn't yet have servers in Australia although I'm told this is in their long term expansion plans. I can use the local CDN to serve statics at least.

Have you heard....there is a lot of energy being put into pushing the Community Media Drupal kits towards a Pantheon installation.

Why?

Because community media organizations have full workloads. Our hands are dirty in real grassroots work - few of us have the budget to support the development needed for the Community Media Starter Kits. I'm not one to just advocate that one solution can solve all our web hosting problems - but this Pantheon thing looks pretty close.

How do we get there?

Hi, and thanks for the great work for getting AWS AMI's up and running for the public. Im getting ready to move my site from one of my hosts to the cloud, but I have a few questions I have yet to find an answer to with this AMI.

As some of you may have seen, we've officially announced the creation of Pantheon Systems, Inc and our plans to deliver a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution for Drupal. We're super-excited about this, and hope to solve a lot of the hard problems that surround the Drupal space in the next year.

However, it's not appropriate for a company to have a Drupal group, and the open-source work on this project continues with Pantheon Systems as a contributor. As such, we've decided to restore the group name to the original "Mercury".

Updates to the open-source/DIY script for setting up the Mercury stack will be coming in the next few weeks, as we work with Boztek and others to get something stable. After that we can start to think about new StackScripts for Linode, AMI's for EC2, and possibly a VirtuualBox image.

Are there other places you'd like to see Mercury available? Other questions you have about the transition? Feel free to post questions here and I'll do my best to answer.

I've got an issue with varnish on my mercury server. I have a site that is located outside of /var/www so I setup a new apache vhost for the site that points to it's proper location and configured it to run on port 8080. When I try to visit the site through varnish on port 80 the default site comes up instead of the site i am expecting. When I visit the site on port 8080 it works fine. Is there something I need to do to varnish to make it aware that the site is not in /var/www? Any help would be appreciated.

Our use case for our Mercury install has suddenly changed in our architecture and it has been determined that we will use SSL only traffic.

I've been trying to read up on how to get Varnish to interact with HTTPS. It appears, to my dismay, that Varnish does not play well with SSL.

I've found this thread:
Enforcing SSL Behind AWS Load balancer
http://groups.drupal.org/node/115284

and this blog post
Setting up Pressflow and Varnish to work with HTTP and HTTPS
http://singlemindconsulting.com/blog/christoler/2010/8/setting-pressflow...

Background in Linux: not much... used Ubuntu & Mint as desktop for a year or so
Drupal dev: couple years now, part time

Currently have my sites (just 2) on a shared hosting situation and want to move to where I'll have more control over performance. Since I love piling on modules in my Drupal installs, query load (I don't know all the proper terms for these things) is heavy.
Research led me to Linode and then to Mercury... and Pantheon. So there wd be easier ways to get my sites up at Linode, but promise of much better performance = irresistible. (Want to pile on more Drupal modules!)

Hello,

I've had a Mercury 1.1beta setup at Amazon using an AMI for a few months now. Since this box has been a development box, I hadn't bother to setup automatic snapshots. I was doing them manually from time to time.

Now that we are getting closer to something that will become production, I would like to enable automatic snapshots.

At the time I setup my first instance, which happens to be Instance Store - I followed the document "Set up EBS for Mercury" which describes how to attach an EBS volume and copy www-data and MySQL data to the attached EBS volume.

We have a Pressflow 6 app with Cache Router routing to multiple memcache bins. The bins have plenty of memory allocated, but other than that are running with default options.

In local testing, I've found that some basic cache-setting fails because of object size. Examples:

Has anyone found Google's mod_pagespeed for Apache beneficial for Pantheon? Any plans to include it in Pantheon/Mercury 1.1?