aegir

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.

I did a presentation at Drupalcon about Aegir, which included how to install it, what the requirements are and guide
through the user interface.

You can find flash and downloadable versions at archive.org and the slides from the presentation are also available.

Hi guys,

I'm just wondering if it is possible to manage Drupal 6.x sites with Aegir?

I see in the roadmap there's discussion regarding moving the front-end to D6. I'm not really fussed about that, but I would like to be able to deploy and manage 6.x sites with Aegir.

Great project. No doubt we'll help out if we end up using it.

Kind regards,
Ben