Aegir-based Business Models

Presented by: C. Gervais (ergonlogic) & A. Albala (alberto56)

Presenters

Christopher Gervais | ergonlogic | chris@koumbit.org

Albert Albala | alberto56 | albert@koumbit.org

Agenda

• What is the Aegir Hosting System?
• Business models
• Making life easier for site-builders
• AegirVPS.net case-study
• Resources

What is the Aegir Hosting System?

• Tools, functions & components
• Project, community & ecosystem

Tools & Functions

"Aegir is an important tool in the toolbox of the Drupal community."

-- Dries Buytaert

Tools & Functions

• Aegir makes it easy to install, upgrade, deploy, and backup an entire network of Drupal sites.
• Complex, sophisticated system
• Essentially requires a dedicated server

Comparison

• Pantheon
• Acquia Cloud/Dev Desktop
• Shared/dedicated hosting

Aegir in Action

Demo time!

Project & Community

• Active community: 4 maintainers, 20+ devs
• Only fully free open source software stack
• Helpful community and professional service providers

Ecosystem

• Development shops
• Consulting firms
• Hosting companies
• SaaS providers
• Clients & other users

Core Components

• Drush extension: Provision

• Installation profile: Hostmaster

  • Modules: Hosting
  • Theme: Eldir

N.B. there is no "Aegir" project on drupal.org

Contrib Components

• Active community: 20+ devs
• Contrib modules: (30+)
• Puppet: Aegir & Drush
• Dev/test: Aegir-up
• Makefiles: kPlatforms

Business models

• Features Lab / Site Factory / Theme Studio
• Infrastructure-as-a-Service
• Software-as-a-Service

Honorable mention: Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

Lab / Factory / Studio

Description: Classic Drupal development shop

1. Skilled Drupal developers
2. Features/Git-based dev-test-staging workflow
3. ????...
4. PROFIT!

Lab / Factory / Studio

Description: Classic Drupal development shop

1. Skilled Drupal developers
2. Features/Git-based dev-test-staging workflow
3. Self-hosted or Managed Aegir
4. PROFIT!

Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Description: Dedicated & managed Aegir servers

1. Automated deployments
2. Monitoring/support
3. Deep Aegir/sysadmin skillset
4. ????...
5. PROFIT!

Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Description: Dedicated & managed Aegir servers

1. Automated deployments
2. Monitoring/support
3. Deep Aegir/sysadmin skillset
4. Client-controlled configuration
5. PROFIT!

Software-as-a-Service

Description: Subscriptions to pre-built & updated sites

1. Install profiles
2. Aegir e-commerce integration
3. ????...
4. PROFIT!

Software-as-a-Service

Description: Subscriptions to pre-built & updated sites

1. Install profiles
2. Aegir e-commerce integration
3. Managed user experience
4. PROFIT!

How Aegir makes life easier

AegirVPS.net case-study

Current stats for aegir.koumbit.net:

• Sites:
• Platforms:
• Clients:

AegirVPS.net case-study

AegirVPS.net case-study

Client profile: Mid-sized non-profit

• 1 production site, multiple dev sites
• Dedicated VM
• Managed Aegir
• Support contract

AegirVPS.net case-study

Client profile: Large Festival

• Dedicated hardware, private VLAN, &c.
• Clustered DBs, file-servers, web-nodes
• Advanced Varnish caching
• 24x7 Support contract

AegirVPS.net case-study

Client profile: Freelance Site-builder

• 40+ small sites
• Dedicated VM
• Managed Aegir
• kPlatforms
• Support contract

AegirVPS.net case-study

Client profile: Mid-sized Drupal Dev Shop

• 20+ medium sites, 8 devs
• Dedicated VMs (Dev, Prod, Varnish)
• Remote Import
• New Relic
• Managed Aegir

Resources

• community.aegirproject.org: Handbook, FAQ, Discussions
• api.aegirproject.org
• Issue queues
• #aegir on IRC
• Aegir Service Providers

Big news!

• Support for Drush 5
• Hosting queue runner, and other contrib features
• Subsite support (example.com/siteA)
• Improvements to support for nginx, SSL &c.

DrupalCon Munich

• BoFs:

  • Today 17:00-18:00
  • Thursday 14:15-15:15

• Sprint on Friday