Barracuda

Hi everyone,

Started to enjoy BOA (2.0.1 HEAD, with already 2 live sites on it). After pretty steep learning curve, still some of performance questions remain.
There are plenty of performance oriented services installed with Barracuda, such as php-fpm, nginx, redis, memcached etc.

I am talking just about Drupal 7 platform, the one, which is included and updated with Octopus. One of the cool features - symlinked modules to all included platforms. There are more performance oriented included with D6, but in D7 just few.
Ones I am interrested most are (probably in order of importance):

Hi,

First of all: great job of making automate scripts - Barracuda is flying on relatively cheap VPS, installation probably took 1/20th of time needed to do similar by hand, but one question remains:

What is the purpose of Octopus? I will use this Aegir instance only internally, that means I will be the only administrator, maybe 1-3 more persons will have an access. So, is there a need to install Octopus? I have read few times everything on project page, understood all words (my native is not english) but the whole meaning - not. Especially Is there any "Octopus for dummies" guide?

I'm using Aegir & Nginx combination (through omega8cc's great barracuda install scripts), and everything is fine and dandy.

However, when using Boost, I can get every page to cache correctly except for the homepage or a site.

The Boost rules are set to allow it, and I can see in the cache directory that the file is getting saved as it should (it becomes _.html).

Greetings. I am looking for some help regarding how to add rewrite rules, or some equivalent to them for my Barracuda Aegir setup. These can just be nginx tips at this point.

If I have a folder at /var/aegir/platform/sites/www.mydomain.com/files/newsletters

in what way could I work with my site's config file to show www.mydomain.com/newsletters ?

This feels relatively simple but I have tried a few things and none of them seem to work. Thanks in advance for considering this.

UPDATE: Barracuda and Octopus new home is on d.o, plus there is BOA group:

http://drupal.org/project/barracuda
http://drupal.org/project/octopus
http://groups.drupal.org/boa

NOTE: this thread is a continuation of previously single-core Barracuda Installer introduction: http://groups.drupal.org/node/84074.