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“You started reading this article because you want an easy way to add new Drupal sites, but once you use Aegir, you’ll only realize its full, insane power when you start to maintain all these lovely n Read more »

“Upgrades. They just never stop. Sure, I’m as grateful as the next guy to have thousands of world-class Drupal developers straining to keep my Drupal sites secure. For free. Read more »

“If you use the excellent Aegir program to manage multiple Drupal web sites, you’ll hear a lot about “platforms”. What are these mysterious platforms? And why should you bother about them? Read more »

“You’ll often hear about Drupal distributions and installation profiles in the same discussions. The two terms aren’t exactly interchangeable, but they’re ultimately talking about the same goal. Read more »

“When you’re building a Drupal web site by adding modules, it’s tempting to just drop them in wherever they work. But this haphazard approach will cause you big trouble on your next upgrade. Read more »

“Once each site is working, then what? What happens when you need to upgrade one or more modules? The answer may surprise you. You don’t upgrade the module. Read more »

“Aegir has many great features for managing Drupal sites, but the feature I most rely on is how Aegir handles upgrades. In Aegir, you don’t upgrade, you migrate. Read more »

This is our standard recipe, useful when you need to import a site with some older Drupal core or some custom installation profile (please see Hint #7 for custom profil Read more »

QI have tried to access the Chive database manager URL provided in the welcome e-mail but it displays “Internal Server Error — CD Read more »

QHow to edit settings.php file to add my custom extra settings or overrides, so they could survive standard Aegir re-creat Read more »

QClone or Migrate task fails with error “Failed to extract the contents of (path to backup archive here) to (path to platform here Read more »

While promised presentation turned into a series of a few short articles, it should be still easy to read and understand for all Drupal sites owners, designers and deve Read more »

“Cook pointed to three things that prompted the decision – he said he recognized the brilliance of Jobs’ vision for the iMac as being different from “following the herd Read more »

There is some controversy around open source versus vendor (proprietary) lock-in technology in the Drupal hosting. Is the open source a Golden Hammer? Read more »

All three vendors analyzed in this comparison use three different pricing methods, and it makes the comparison difficult, since we need to find some common denominator. Read more »

There are three known methods to make Drupal running fast: hide the slow backend behind a fast frontend, distribute the load across many fast backends, or remove all sl Read more »

You will hear this from all cloud hosting providers these days, all the time. Scalable, scale on demand, burstable. Read more »

Understanding core conceptions is probably the most important step in this comparison, however it is not easy, because core conceptions tend to hide themselves behind t Read more »

High performance, scalable Drupal hosting, tuned and optimized for Drupal specific needs is available in a few different flavours, offered by many providers, so no matt Read more »

The Omega8.cc team is happy to release Barracuda/Octopus Edition BOA-2.0.1. Read more »

The Omega8.cc team is happy to release Barracuda/Octopus Special Edition BOA-1.4S. Read more »

The Omega8.cc team is happy to release Barracuda/Octopus Edition 1.0-boa-T-8.10. Read more »

The Omega8.cc team is happy to release Barracuda/Octopus Edition 1.0-boa-T-8.9. Read more »

The Omega8.cc team is happy to release Barracuda/Octopus Edition 1.0-boa-T-8.8. Read more »

QHow can I access my Aegir system – the Provision backend and also the Hostmaster frontend directories and files, or use Aegir API? Read more »