mercury install

I have a clean version of lucid.

performed the following:

echo 'APT::Install-Recommends "0";' | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf
sudo wget http://pantheon-storage.chapterthree.com/mercury.list.1.1 -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mercury.list
sudo wget http://pantheon-storage.chapterthree.com/aws.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aws.list
sudo wget http://pantheon-storage.chapterthree.com/lucid -O /etc/apt/preferences.d/lucid
wget http://pantheon-storage.chapterthree.com/gpgkeys.txt -O /tmp/keys.txt
sudo apt-key add /tmp/keys.txt

Hello all,

First thank you for all the work that has been put into Aegir and Mercury/Pantheon. I've been keeping an eye on both for a while and am ready to jump in. While my needs aren't heavy ... yet. A current project has the potential to need the power and scalability of Mercury/Pantheon and I want Aegir to make life simpler for implementing new sites and creating test development environments. So with that in mind I am creating a new server at Linode and will be migrating my sites(mostly D6 with one D5) from my old standard server.

Since I am converting from a box that wasn't using Apache/Solr, had no reverse proxy(Varnish) or caching such as APC/memcached in place I don't have to have those options fully in place on day one. I can activate those as I get a handle on their unique twists due to multi-site on Mercury/Pantheon. But I do want to lay the groundwork and get as much in place up front as I can.

I have been reading everything I can find(I'll include some of the links at the end of this post), which has answered many of my questions. But has also lead to a few more detailed new ones.