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Hi everybody, I'm brand spanking new to the world of Pantheon and just set up my first Pantheon / Mercury site on slicehost thanks to Greg Coit's great writeup.

Hey Guys,

Just wondering if anyone has any experience running Drupal on AWS with at least Aegir. Ideally I'm thinking it would be great to have a setup similar to Pantheon's new service but I'm not sure I can wait that long.

There are many things to keep updated on any server and Pantheon is no exception. Fortunately, we've provided some tools to help.

A new screencast has been created and posted by joshk showing some of the features of the new version of Pantheon: http://getpantheon.com/news/pantheon-demonstration-screencast. The interface will be exclusive to the getpantheon.com service, but the functionality will be available to anyone who wants to use Pantheon, regardless if they make their own Pantheon server, or one of our pre-built AWS or Linode servers.

Greg

Background: The Drupal 6 site used to work very well on a VPS until a few months ago. However in order to reduce the server cost as well as to improve performance of the site even more, we decided to move to the cloud and Pantheon. We setup a pantheon server and moved a copy of the site on rackspacecloud and tested it using Jmeter with 1000 users and tested continuously for 4 hours and the load never went more than 1. The Jmeter report showed only .4% error(which was normal i think).

I'm on the customer development team at Pantheon and We're working hard on improving Pantheon. We have a few new features that we've been working on, but we'd like to know how to budget the rest of our time before Copenhagen.

We're currently looking to talk with people who deal with hosting (either as a client or as a developer). We want to learn what you dislike about your current development server & hosting options, and what you think would make them better. This knowledge will directly influence what features we develop first.

I'm on the customer development team at Pantheon and We're working hard on improving Pantheon. We have a few new features that we've been working on, but we'd like to know how to budget the rest of our time before Copenhagen.

We're currently looking to talk with people who deal with hosting (either as a client or as a developer). We want to learn what you dislike about your current development server & hosting options, and what you think would make them better. This knowledge will directly influence what features we develop first.

Hi,

I have installed pantheon on Ubuntu (lucid). But please note I have downgraded the php to 5.2.10 (karmic version) since the site was giving some errors with drupal 6.13.

Server softwares

Ubuntu Lucid
Apache/2.2.14
PHP 5.2.13 (cli)
Mysql 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.3
Varnish-2.1
Mercury 1.1

The site is working good.. but from time to time load increases tremendously and server just hangs. Seems like php connections are not getting closed.
This is from error.log

[Mon Jul 12 20:47:16 2010] [error] child died with signal 9

Just a note for Linode users who haven't seen the news. (I hadn't) Linode increased the memory on all their plans yesterday by 42%. So if you had Pantheon on a Linode 540, you're now on a Linode 768. You need to reboot to use the new memory.

We're pleased to announce new AWS AMIs for Mercury 1.1 on Ubuntu Lucid. These Beta AMIs were made using the instructions posted here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/70268. AMI IDs after the jump...