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Barracuda, Octopus and Aegir LEMP stack

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We believe that powerful web hosting tools, even if complex behind the scenes, should expose only simplicity, beauty and power.

How firewall works - is my IP blocked?

QI think that my Aegir instance is offline – at least I can’t access it, so how to make sure what is going on and unlock my IP add Read more »

Your Drupal Site Upgrade -- Safe Workflow

Tags: Development

How to properly and safely upgrade a Pressflow 6 or Drupal 7 site when there is either security or feature minor version upgrade for core available? Read more »

Hosting Systems Security

Our hosted Aegir service comes with many built-in security monitoring and autonomous attack prevention systems and agents, working out of the box. Read more »

Managing your code in the Aegir Style

Tags: Development | 2 Comments

Aegir “enforces” some good practices, but not to make your work fancy in the “Aegir Style”, rather to make it secure, effective and re-usable (modular). Read more »

Are there any specific good habits to learn?

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QHow to avoid issues with files/directories access permissions, breaking later even some Aegir task like site clone/migrate, and h Read more »

Aegir task fails or spins forever

Tags: Problems & Solutions | 9 Comments

QFor some reason you can’t delete the site or the platform in the Aegir control panel, even when you already deleted all its files Read more »

FTP or SFTP password not accepted?

QMy FTPS and SFTP password no longer works, but I didn’t change it, so what happened and how to avoid this issue in the future – i Read more »

Aegir Hosting System

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Do you have more than a handful of Drupal sites to manage, and feel your hair stand on end every time a security release is announced? Read more »

All systems upgrade June 29/30

Event Date: June 29/30, 2020
Event Location: San Jose, Chicago, Ashburn, Amsterdam, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Toronto etc.

Impact:

All instances, both hosted and remotely managed, including Cluste Read more »

LON Hardware Migration June 28

Event Date: Sunday, the 28th of June at 4pm BST
Event Location: London, UK
All instances, including Cluster and Power hosted in all London subnets will be affected by this maintenance

Our machine Read more »

CHI S1 subnet RAID Upgrade Aug 29

#Status Update 3

All hardware upgrades have been completed, while firmware upgrades will have to be completed
in a separate maintenance window and after all production systems will be migrated el Read more »

Supported, Enabled, Disabled - a complete list

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IThere are modules supported by Octopus, but not bundled by default or not enabled, and there are also some bundled, useful or per

[2019] Remote Host Identification / SSH

»Most of hosted and remotely managed Aegir systems will receive security update during upgrade to BOA-4.0.0-prod Read more »

How to add custom platform properly?

Tags: Development

How to add your custom platform so it will work like all other platforms installed by default? Read more »

How to quickly switch PHP to newer version?

QHow to quickly switch PHP-FPM and PHP-CLI version for all Drupal 9, 8, 7 and Pressflow 6 sites on your Aegir Octopus instance? Read more »

PHPMailer Remote Code Execution

Tags: Security

A new critical vulnerability in the PHPMailer library used by various popular PHP applications, including Drupal contrib modules Read more »

LON Hardware Migration Nov 4-6

Event Date: Friday, 4 November, 2016 at 23:00 GMT until Sunday, 6 November, 2016 at 23:00 GMT
Event Location: London, UK
All instances hosted in all London subnets will be affected by this maintenan Read more »

AVA S2/S3 Hardware Migration Nov 4-6

Event Date: Friday, November 4, 2016 at 11:00 PM EDT until Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 11:00 PM EST
Event Location: Ashburn, Virginia, USA
All instances hosted in AVA S2 and S3 subnets will be affec Read more »

AVA S2 Hardware Maintenance Sept 29

Event Date: Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 9:00 — 10:00 PM EST
Event Location: Ashburn, Virginia, USA
All instances hosted in AVA S2 subnet will be affected by this maintenance

ServerCentral Ne Read more »

BOA-3.1.1 Full Edition

Tags: Updates

We are happy to release BOA-3.1.1 Full Edition, with system security upgrades, improvements and bug fixes, plus all supported Drupal platforms updated to latest versions. Enjoy! Read more »

[2016] Remote Host Identification / SSH

»All hosted and remotely managed Aegir systems will receive security update on June 19, 2016, which will affect your acces Read more »

LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates

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  You can find these important Let’s Encrypt topics discussed below:

  # Introduction
  # Before w    

BOA-3.1.0 Full Edition

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We are happy to release BOA-3.1.0 Full Edition, with support for Let’s Encrypt free SSL certificates, PHP-FPM versions configurable per site, along with many fixes and improvements. Enjoy! Read more »

BOA-3.0.2 Full Edition

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We are happy to release BOA-3.0.2 Full Edition, which includes support for PHP 7.0.6 and compatible Drupal 7 core, along with many important fixes and improvements. Enjoy! Read more »

BOA-3.0.1 Full Edition

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We are happy to release BOA-3.0.1 Full Edition, which includes complete Aegir 3 with Drush 8, and supports latest Drupal 8, along with many important fixes and improvements. Enjoy! Read more »

BOA-3.0.0 Full Edition

Tags: Updates

We are happy to release BOA-3.0.0 Full Edition, which includes complete Aegir 3 with Drush 8, and introduces full support for latest Drupal 8, along with many system software updates. Enjoy! Read more »

Nginx redirects to /install.php with 404

QI’ve upgraded some of our sites, first by cloning the original site and then migrating the cloned sites to the new platform. Read more »

LON Network Maintenance April 6/7

Event Date: Wednesday 6th April 22:00 BST — Thursday 7th April 01:00 BST
Event Location: London, UK
All instances hosted in London will be affected by this maintenance

Impact: We expect up to 10 Read more »

BOA-2.4.9 Full Edition

Tags: Updates

We are happy to release BOA-2.4.9 Full Edition, which includes latest Drupal 7 and Pressflow 6 security updates, along with bug fixes and other system software updates. Enjoy! Read more »

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