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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'm having a problem with drush downloading modules, I've set up a VPS on Linode using Ubuntu 10.4 and Apache. I'm installing a new site with Drupal 7 and when trying to add modules I'm getting the following:

mkmagu@mail:/srv/www/webdesignbymary.com/public_html$ drush dl admin_menu advanced_help backup_migrate cck views ctools mollom token views_slideshow page_title imageapi pathauto

PHP Deprecated: Comments starting with '#' are deprecated in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/idn.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0

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!)

I installed omega8 aegir on linode about two weeks ago. Installation went great, much better than the other hosting companies I have tried. Great platform. I am able to setup new sites with little trouble.

But I have noticed some issues.
1... Sometimes a "create site" task will not complete and time out. But I resubmit the task and eventually the entire task will finish. I suspect adding extra hosting resources would resolve this issue.

2... This is a big issue. I had tried to add 3 sites, all using subdomains of a primary domain.
dom1.domain.com - OPENPublish

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.