What should you expect from your Drupal Web Host

What Should You Expect from you Hosting Company?

Who is this Guy?
Andrew Kucharski
CEO of Promet Solutions
10+ Years of high traffic website development
Does like little dogs
@akucharski

Chef and Drupal BOF
Drupal Automation with Chef
Thursday 9:00 am – Arkansas Room
Marius Ducea
CTO of Promet Solutions
15+ Years of high traffic website development
Does NOT like little dogs
@mariusducea

Promet Source background
Company Background
Founded in 2003
20 + employees
Offices in Chicago, New York, California
Company Offerings
Drupal Development
Drupal Support
Drupal Hosting

Drupal Hosting
Shared
in the past, you would choose a shared hosting and if they had Cpanel, and you could install Drupal with Fantastico it was the coolest thing. This of course until they had performance issues because the host was overselling its machines.
VPS
or you would choose a VPS solution where you would have your own resources, but in this case you would have to manage and maintain yourself everything.
Clouds
and lately we have cloud solutions; but this instead of bringing us single simple solution, it makes things even more complicated. You need to know how to deploy your application on the cloud and on top of that you still have to manage your instances.

Small Business Needs

What does everyone Want? High Availability

Scalability

Drupal Expertise - Performance

Drupal Expertise - Security

Technical Support that knows Drupal

NO Server Maintenance

So How can this be achieved?
Hosting is not just a utility, its also service
Automated updates and security
Verification and bug fixes
Human Support hours build into the plan
Drupal Expertise on-call

Client Centric Hosting Support? That’s crazy!
How do we do it?
Automatic scripted updates – Chef and custom scripts
Testing
Rollback
No Free Lunch

Booth #42 PrometSource.com @akucharski Andrew Kucharski [email_address] 773-525-8255

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What should you expect from your Drupal Web Host

by Andrew Kucharski on Mar 27, 2011

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