mercury

I want to give everyone a preview of what we're working on for Mercury 1.1:

I've posted updated slides from my Drupal in the Cloud presntation here at SxSw interactive. Check 'em out!

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Announcing Wild Pockets Gallery Beta

Hello

Anyone currently working with Mercury/varnish in a load balanced envrionment? We're looking to have three web servers running Mercury, all pointing to a single DB box + slave.

Heads up for any gotchas (varnish cache going stale? etc) would be much appreciated.

Thanks, James

Over the past few days some of us have been discussing the aims and ambitions of this project:

http://drupal.org/project/esi

There are a lot of pieces to be developed to support this properly. My aim is to get something simple in place to allow blocks, regions and panels to be served out of an ESI cache. There are further ideas to build some sort of ESI-assembly into the Boost module, and to implement an intermediary cache layer between Drupal and an external ESI cache (e.g. Varnish) to prevent multiple bootstraps.

So, let's take this discussion out to the wider community!

I just installed Mercury, and I see these 3 pressflow modules. Should I enable them? Why are they not enabled by default?

I decided that my pressflow folder should also be in ebs, so I moved them to a different folder. I only changed etc/apache2/sites-available/default to point to the new location, is there anywhere else I should change?

I'm setting up a Project Mercury style server on Linode and have run into a few problems / possible inaccuracies. I made one correction to the wiki but then decided it'd be better to list my changes here for vetting before moving them into the wiki. I'm using an Ubuntu 9.10 server.

1. Installing basic packages failed because apt-get couldn't find libapache2-mod-rpaf. I added the University repositories to fix that. I added a another step in the basic startup to uncomment the universe repositories.

I've got a pretty stable Mercury instance running (I forget which version). I've not got any production sites on it though I do plan to leverage a Mercury box for that soon.

On this box I have a strange quirk that I can't seem to figure out. If I've not loaded a page for several hours it sends me output of the home page in a /node format instead of the node I've set for the home page. Hit refresh and it does what it's supposed to do.

Hello,

How does scaling work at Amazon if I start out with the smallest instance with a Mercury.

I have never used any of them, just doing my research on which way to go.

Would be as simple as clicking a few buttons on my Amazon control panel to get a bigger instance? :)

Ok so I noticed your Aegir build but also noticed joshk's comment here http://groups.drupal.org/node/27134#comment-92680 So if its really different am I to assume it doesn't include all the goodies in Mercury? Im guessing so based on the description over at getpantheon.com ... so I currently have a dedicated server in which i have been running aegir for some time now quite happily ... what I wanted to know is if any of you are running Aegir inside your Mercury goodness? Are there any reasons not to?