Hosting Drupal sites? You need Ægir!

Colan Schwartz (colan), Christopher Gervais (ergonlogic)

Do you need a self-hosted solution for hosting and managing Drupal sites? Would you like be able able to upgrade all of your sites at once with a single button click? Are you tired of dealing with all of the proprietary Drupal hosting providers that won't let you customize your set-up? Wouldn't it be nice if all of your sites could automatically get free HTTPS certificates?

If you said yes to any of the above questions, there's only one option: the Aegir Hosting System. While it's possible to find a company that will host Drupal sites for you, Aegir helps you maintain control whether you want to use your own infrastructure or manage your own software-as-a-service (SaaS) product. Plus, you get all the benefits of open source.

We'll cover:

History
Architecture
Basic features
Advanced features
Development workflows
Recent additions
Future
Questions & discussion

Colan Schwartz
Enterprise Cloud Architect, Drupal/Aegir/SaaS/PaaS/IaaS Consultant, Toronto
I'm an Enterprise Cloud Architect specializing in Drupal, Aegir, SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS consulting. I do technical planning and implementation to ensure sound and sustainable solutions. I’ve worked with Drupal for over 10 years, and support over 30 of its projects. I’m a core maintainer of the Aegir Hosting System and a founding member of the Aegir Co-op. In addition, I’m a certified software engineer, and have been security cleared by the Canadian government. I also volunteer my time to mentor students for Google Summer of Code (GSOC). I have over 15 years experience with content management systems (CMSes) for records/data/information management focusing on technical architecture and software development. From my careers managing a Web-development firm, working as a federal government employee and freelancing as an independent contractor, I have gained experience in Information Architecture (IA) / Data Modelling, DevOps, Back-End Development, Code Review, Software Configuration Management (SCM), Security Analysis and System Administration. Although much of the work I do varies, here are some of the services I provide.
Enterprise Cloud technical architecture
Drupal and Aegir consulting
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions
Cloud computing infrastructures as a service (IaaS) via OpenStack
Application container management: scaling, clustering, & deployment
OS-level virtualization via Kubernetes & Docker
Producing & documenting development operations (DevOps) processes
Back-end development
Web services (e.g. REST)
Site migrations & upgrades
Business process & workflow solutions
Information management (IM) / Information architecture (IA)
General Internet consulting services
Multi-lingual / multi-country sites, language translation & content localization
Authentication & authorization (e.g. SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect)
Integration with third-party APIs
Performance tuning & optimization
E-commerce & financial solutions
Web site & accessibility audits (WCAG, Section 508, etc.)

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