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We're proud to announce the first release of the Aegir hosting system for Drupal.

Ægir is a new set of contributed modules for Drupal that aims to solve the problem of managing a large number of Drupal sites. It does this by providing you with a simple Drupal based hosting front end for your entire network of sites. To deploy a new site you simply have to create a new Site node. To backup or upgrade sites, you simply manage your site nodes as you would any other node.

This release is feature complete with the main roadmap of Aegir. It will allow you to install, back up, restore, enable, disable and delete your hosted sites. We were originally considering releasing an extra release candidate to make sure the first release was really rock solid, but since 0.2 (HEAD) progressed so quickly, we are now shortening the release cycle. We therefore want to shorten the release cycle to get more features out and favour greater adoption.

As our 0.1 release is nearing, I have been making some steps toward our 0.2 release. The onus for this progress has been some really exciting changes happening upstream in the Drush project.

Our 0.1 release was originally only going to manage a Drupal platform, with no support for hosting sites on Drupal 6. As the project wore on, we realized we needed to become invested in Drupal 6 very quickly, so we ported only the back end to Drupal 6, and have been maintaining the releases in parallel.

Living in sin with Drush 1.x

We're proud to announce the first release candidate of the Aegir hosting system for Drupal.

Ægir is a new set of contributed modules for Drupal that aims to solve the problem of managing a large number of Drupal sites. It does this by providing you with a simple Drupal based hosting front end for your entire network of sites. To deploy a new site you simply have to create a new Site node. To backup or upgrade sites, you simply manage your site nodes as you would any other node.

This release is feature complete with the main roadmap of Aegir. It will allow you to install, back up, restore, enable, disable and delete your hosted sites. This release will become the first stable in the next 2 weeks, if no more bugs are found. The only changes that will be allowed into this release are documentation and bug fixes.

Can people share their own experience with the web hosting providers they have tried before? Which ones are good, which ones to avoid, which ones are easy to hack, which ones have really bad support?

Hey all,

I've been with Drupal Value Hosting for about a year and my account will renew for another year pretty soon. At first they were great: very Drupal-friendly setups, Seattle-based servers had wicked-short latency and I was happy. Lately, the Seattle servers regularly have loads > 50 which grinds even the most efficient site to a crawl and customer service has gone AWOL. Anyhow...

I'm looking to jump ship if I can find another local hosting option. What I'd like:

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I will be hosting an auction site which will get quite a bit of traffic (expected 2000 viewers) on the day of every auction. Most of the time it will be quite a low traffic. What hosting would I need to accommodate this? What steps should I take to optimize performance. I've looked at media temple, mosso, slicehost and a few others.
Should I go for a cluster, vps or dedicated server.

Thanks.

We're proud to announce the second and final beta release of the Aegir hosting system for Drupal.

Ægir is a new set of contributed modules for Drupal that aims to solve the problem of managing a large number of Drupal sites. It does this by providing you with a simple Drupal based hosting front end for your entire network of sites. To deploy a new site you simply have to create a new Site node. To backup or upgrade sites, you simply manage your site nodes as you would any other node.

This release is feature complete with the main roadmap of Aegir. It will allow you to install, back up, restore, enable, disable and delete your hosted sites. It is considered mostly production ready, and should be safe to run on a production system.

This release will become the first RC in the next week, if no more bugs are found. The only changes that will be allowed into this release
are documentation and bug fixes.

Via this story, I see that GoDaddy now has their own auto installer, called Hosting Connection.

It installs Drupal amongst other scripts, and also includes a rating component.

We should:

• reach out to GoDaddy and see how Hosting Connection is run and updated with Drupal out of the box
• encourage people on GoDaddy to rate Drupal highly

We're proud to announce the first beta release of the Aegir hosting system for Drupal.

Ægir is a new set of contributed modules for Drupal that aims to solve the problem of managing a large number of Drupal sites. It does this by providing you with a simple Drupal based hosting front end for your entire network of sites. To deploy a new site you simply have to create a new Site node. To backup or upgrade sites, you simply manage your site nodes as you would any other node.

This release constitutes the feature complete state of our first release. It will allow you to install, back up, restore, enable, disable and delete your hosted sites. It also provides a very complete installation wizard to help you configure your server, and excellent support for importing sites you may already have running.