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1. #AMAZON DRUPAL HOSTING UPDATE#
2. #AMAZON DRUPAL HOSTING UPGRADE#
3. #AMAZON DRUPAL HOSTING SOFTWARE#
4. #AMAZON DRUPAL HOSTING FREE#

#AMAZON DRUPAL HOSTING SOFTWARE#

There are about 50 more Drupal community sites in the backlog waiting to get setup with an Acquia Hosting account.Drupal is a content management system (CMS), or a software built for creating and organizing a high volume of website content.

We're now hosting 25 community websites including Drupal Edu, SpreadDrupal, Drupal Dojo, Drupal Catalan, Design 4 Drupal Boston and more.

#AMAZON DRUPAL HOSTING FREE#

To help support the Drupal community, we give free Acquia Hosting to sites for non-profit groups that promote Drupal use and adoption. We also announced a free Acquia Hosting program. Among other things, that means developing more "self-service"-style systems, improved customer dashboards and documentation, and streamlined, focused support operations to make sure our customers are getting their questions answered and their problems fixed in the shortest time possible so they can worry about their business and not their websites. Going forward, a top priority is to make the process of getting new customers online easier for us and better for them. At the end of the day, our team's deep knowledge of Drupal and our technology stack are the essence and ultimate value-proposition of our Drupal hosting offering. Once servers are provisioned for a new site, getting customers up-and-running involves detailed site audits (making sure they don't have core hacks, analyzing their site architecture, etc.), teaching them how the Acquia Hosting environment works, helping them learn to best leverage clusters of servers, doing load testing, and helping them get over performance bottlenecks (slow or excessive SQL queries, expensive uncached Views or blocks, etc.).

RoadmapĬonsidering our costs and other metrics eight months into the hosting business adventure, the real value of our hosting offering comes not from the technology alone, but rather from our support team's work while getting customers' sites online and helping them day in, day out.

#AMAZON DRUPAL HOSTING UPGRADE#

Along the way, we developed deployment tools to make it easy to roll-out and automatically configure our customers' EC2 instances - it takes just a matter of minutes to upgrade a site's capacity. Next, we focused our efforts on improving Acquia Hosting's performance by adding tools like Varnish for page caching customer isolation reorganizing parts of our underlying architecture lots of tweaking to Apache, PHP and MySQL and repeated rounds of realistic load testing. The results of this were: providing multiple, redundant web nodes real-time database replication backups monitoring infrastructure (we track 25+ system parameters) customer isolation, and so on. Our first area of focus was on reliability. The way we started work on Acquia Hosting is the way we have continued: with a very strong focus on engineering. We've come a long way since we started working on a Drupal hosting product about a year ago. It is a real success story for Drupal, Acquia Hosting, Amazon Web Services and cloud computing in general: incredible time to market, great performance and scalability. I hope the customer will allow us to write-up a detailed case study at some point. 830+ page views per second or 5000+ HTTP requests per second - yes, Drupal scales). In just a few days, we scaled past the limits of their previous hosting provider and flawlessly served 3 million page views per hour (i.e. It takes most hosting companies weeks or months to roll out, configure and tweak all the servers required to host a high-traffic traffic sites like this one. For example, we were recently able to have a new, enterprise-scale Acquia Hosting customer online only a few days after they first contacted us. The presentation is the result of 2.5 years of experience building products exclusively on Amazon Web Services and having to maintain close to 200 EC2 instances.Īt Acquia, we're all very proud of what we've built. If you are interested in the technical details, I highly recommend watching Barry Jaspan's DrupalCon San Francisco presentation on the challenges of hosting Drupal on AWS - I'm biased, but it is the best technical presentation that I've seen on hosting websites on Amazon Web Service (AWS). Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, etc) using Open Source components such as Varnish, Puppet, GlusterFS, NginX and more. From a technology point of view, we've built tools to automatically launch multi-server hosting environments optimized for Drupal. Current statusįor those who don't know, Acquia Hosting is a highly-available cloud-based hosting platform tuned for Drupal performance and scalability.

#AMAZON DRUPAL HOSTING UPDATE#

In this blog post, I wanted to give a quick update on where we are after 8 months. Roughly 8 months ago at DrupalCon Paris, we launched Acquia Hosting.