BOA Drupal camp Serbia 2014

Barracuda on Aegir is a Drupal hosting solution. This talk was given for Drupal Camp Serbia held in Novi Sad on October 31, 2014.

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1. BOA BARRACUDA ON ÆGIR ~ MY FIRST YEAR ~ Mladen Đurić @macmladen 1
3. MLADEN ĐURIĆ a.k.a MacMladen • in IT since the time of mainframes, 8th year in UNIX epoch. • started with Z80 assembly, went over 6502 to 8086 (1978-1990) • somewhere in between, there was an episode with BASIC but really enjoyed hard core C • was knee deep in DTP 1990-2000 • gone to Mac in 1995 and never looked back • 2005 started playing with web technologies • 2007 landed on Drupal :D 3
4. TIMETABLE: • Shared hosting: ~10 min • Ægir: ~30 min • Q & A: 15 min or more 4
6. Chapter 1. SHARED HOSTING 6
7. NOT ALL HOSTINGS ARE THE SAME Requirements: • some Linux • Apache • PHP • MySQL • FTP • SSH access • Unlimited everything • Disk • Transfer • Domains • Databases • Users 7
8. HITTING THE WALL The limits • CPU • Memory • Database • Caching (APC, opcache) • Extra PHP stuff (uploadprogress, xdebug) • Tweaks 8
9. DREAMHOST: LOVE & HATE Tuned: • Users: unlimited! • Memory: .htaccess raised! • Database: horor, hell. • Caching (APC, opcache) — added! • Extra PHP stuff added! (uploadprogress, xdebug) • Tweaks — totally customized :D 9
10. Chapter 2. EVALUATING DRUPAL HOSTING OPTIONS 10
11. My favourite 8086 assembler directive ASSUME NOTHING 11
12. IMPORTANT QUESTIONS Who you are? • Service or VPS? Who your clients are? • Service or VPS? System skill level • Will you be able to cope with system maintaining Resources needed • Service or VPS? • Sites • Memory • CPU • Disk • Transfer • SSL • IP Budget Client expectations, sensitivity • Security, maintenance, performance World region • Proximity to client market 12
13. AMAZON WEB SERVICES EC2 t2.micro: • 1 CPU • 1 GB • 30 GB of EBS • World region • Spot vs Reserved • Load balancing http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ 13
14. ACQUIA CLOUD EC2 t2.micro: • 1 CPU • 1 GB • 30 GB of EBS • World region • Spot vs Reserved • Load balancing http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ 14
15. GET PANTHEON EC2 t2.micro: • 1 CPU • 1 GB • 30 GB of EBS • World region • Spot vs Reserved • Load balancing http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ 15
16. OMEGA8.CC EC2 t2.micro: • 1 CPU • 1 GB • 30 GB of EBS • World region • Spot vs Reserved • Load balancing http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ 16
17. PLATFORM.SH EC2 t2.micro: • 1 CPU • 1 GB • 30 GB of EBS • World region • Spot vs Reserved • Load balancing http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ 17
18. SOME OTHER? EC2 t2.micro: • 1 CPU • 1 GB • 30 GB of EBS • World region • Spot vs Reserved • Load balancing http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ 18
19. SUMMARY EC2 t2.micro: • 1 CPU • 1 GB • 30 GB of EBS • World region • Spot vs Reserved • Load balancing http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ 19
20. Chapter 3. TESTING FOR VPS 20
21. AWS FREE TIER MICRO INSTANCE EC2 t2.micro: • 1 CPU • 1 GB • 30 GB of EBS • World region • Spot vs Reserved • Load balancing http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ 21
22. Chapter 4. BUILDING THE VPS 22
23. $10 = 1 CPU, 1GB, 30GB • Cheaper plan is just too small. • 1GB is enough for moderate use but will not allow Solr and memory use will be ~700-800MB active • 2GB would raise MySQL cache, allow for Solr (~200MB) and leave some room for more performance. • 4GB is expensive -> Dedicated 23
24. INSTANCE BUILD: DEBIAN 7 32BIT • Debian: 6 or 7 • Ubuntu • CentOS • FreeBSD • Darwin/Mac? • some exotic? • 32 bit
 No need for less than 4GB • 64 bit
 Imperative if you have more than 4GB 24
25. SUPPORTED LTS OS 32/64BIT MINIMAL ON SERVER OR DESKTOP ON LOCALHOST • Debian 7 Wheezy (recommended) • Debian 6 Squeeze (fully supported with automatic upgrade to Wheezy available) • Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 (limited support) • Ubuntu Precise 12.04 (limited support) • Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 (limited support) 25
26. Chapter 5. UNDERSTANDING AEGIR 26
28. AEGIR • Debian: 6 or 7 • Ubuntu • CentOS • FreeBSD • Darwin/Mac? • some exotic? • 32 bit
 No need for less than 4GB • 64 bit
 Imperative if you have more than 4GB 28
29. Chapter 6. BUILDING THE BOA 29
30. REQUIREMENTS FOR BOA • wget must be installed. • The git standard port 9418 must be open. • SMTP standard port 25 (or SMTP relay) must be open for outgoing connections. • Minimum 1 GB of RAM • Locales with UTF-8 support, otherwise en_US.UTF-8 (default) is forced. • Basic sysadmin skills and experience. • Willingness to accept BOA PI (paranoid idiosyncrasies). 30
31. BOA INSTALLATION IMPORTANT! • Don't run any installer via sudo. • You must be logged in as root or `sudo -i` first. • Don't run any system updates before running Barracuda installer. • You should use vanilla system. # cd # wget -q -U iCab http://files.aegir.cc/BOA.sh.txt # bash BOA.sh.txt 31 You are prepared now. But before starting installation, you have to configure it first.
32. Chapter 7. MIGRATING SITES 32
33. Chapter 8. MAINTAING SITES 33
34. Q & A BARRACUDA ON AEGIR ~ MY FIRST YEAR ~ Mladen Đurić @macmladen 34
35. THANKS! BARRACUDA ON AEGIR ~ MY FIRST YEAR ~ Mladen Đurić @macmladen 35