what should you expect from your drupal web host
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Promet Source presentation given during Drupal Con 2011 at main stage - w.TRANSCRIPT
What Should You Expect from you Hosting Company?
Who is this Guy?
Andrew Kucharski CEO of Promet Solutions
10+ Years of high traffic website development
Does like little dogs
@akucharski
Chef and Drupal BOF
Drupal Automation with Chef
Thursday 9:00 am – Arkansas Room
Marius Ducea CTO of Promet Solutions
15+ Years of high traffic website development
Does NOT like little dogs
@mariusducea
Promet Source background
Company Background Founded in 2003
20 + employees
Offices in Chicago, New York, California
Company Offerings Drupal Development
Drupal Support
Drupal Hosting
Drupal Hosting
Shared in the past, you would choose a shared hosting and if they had Cpanel, and
you could install Drupal with Fantastico it was the coolest thing. This of course until they had performance issues because the host was overselling its machines.
VPS or you would choose a VPS solution where you would have your own
resources, but in this case you would have to manage and maintain yourself everything.
Clouds and lately we have cloud solutions; but this instead of bringing us single
simple solution, it makes things even more complicated. You need to know how to deploy your application on the cloud and on top of that you still have to manage your instances.
Small Business Needs
What does everyone Want?High Availability
Scalability
Drupal Expertise - Performance
Drupal Expertise - Security
Technical Support that knows Drupal
NO Server Maintenance
So How can this be achieved?
Hosting is not just a utility, its also service Automated updates and security
Verification and bug fixes
Human Support hours build into the plan
Drupal Expertise on-call
Client Centric Hosting Support? That’s crazy!
How do we do it? Automatic scripted updates – Chef
and custom scripts
Testing
Rollback
No Free Lunch
