Question

I'm considering Mercury/Pantheon for an existing Drupal 6 site that I'd like to port over to Drupal 7. It's a real estate site with about 30,000 listings, but should be expanding to over 200,000 throughout this year.

I just signed up with linode and used the stackscript for mercury. I booted up and logged in as root. I pinged the IP address of my VPS and after a bit got this...

Page Could Not Be Loaded

We're very sorry, but the page could not be loaded properly. This should be fixed very soon, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
Debug Info:

Status: 503
Response: Service Unavailable
XID: 1255939562

Varnish

It still seems to be loading endlessly. I checked the settings.php file and everything seems to be fine there. Anyone ran into this before?

Thanks!

The concept on including reverse proxy seems very interesting. However it allows one to use it only one application at a time.

Has anyone used this setup to multiple websites using virtualhosts?

Drupal comes with a language negociation (D6: admin/settings/language/configure). One of the options is "path prefix with language fallback": If a suitable prefix is not identified, the display language is determined by the user's language preferences from the My Account page, or by the browser's language settings. The latter means it will look at Accept-Language in the http request and return the preferred language. I would like this still to work, together with Varnish cache.

Varnish keeps on crashing on me, and since I have authcache and only one server, I'd rather not deal with it.

I removed it by apt-get remove varnish, and setting apache to port 80. Are there any other steps that I need to take to set the server to be like no varnish? What about the memory allocated to varnish in the bootscript, is that someone I'll need to clawback?

Thanks.

Looks like the nightly Solr builds at http://people.apache.org/builds/lucene/solr/nightly/ haven't worked since 2/27. What is the recommended version of Solr to use ATM for use with Mercury?

I understand that Mercury doesn't officially support multisite yet. But has anyone configured it for use with multisite? I have a brand new server I'm setting up and want to put mercury on it, but I have 10+ sites! Any input/advice is appreciated.

Thanks,