Joomla Hosting and Hosting Trends - Joomla!Days NL 2009 #jd09nl

Where we do our webhosting? I think we got ours with our new cappuccino machine! Ir. Gruus van Woerkom (Byte Internet) Joomla Hosting and Hosting Trends

What I’d like to talk about with you
Who is Gruus?
Joomla & Hosting
Trends in Business & Tech
Choice of topics
Discussion

Gruus @ Byte
One of 3 directors at Byte.
Byte is a webhosting company (clustering, cool tech).
Interaction with webdevelopers, monthly seminar.
14 people, Amsterdam based.

Issues with hosting companies
Availability
Speed
Installation and configuration
Security issues / hacks
Support
Joomla Ban

Always up
“ I want my site to be always up”
Concept: High availability
Redundancy
Automatic failover (hot standby)
Webclusters
Database replication
Files on NAS
FTP, DNS, Mail

Always fast (1)
“ I want my site to be fast!”
Scale out!
Add more webservers to cluster
Split webclusters
Add more databaseclusters
Add more fileservers/NAS

Always fast (2)
Do NOT bother clients/sites.
Detect bad neighbours! Isolate heavy users.
Innovate on technology (Apache, PHP, MySQL).
Load balancer 1…n
Webcluster 1…n
Fileserver 1…n
Databasecluster 1…n
“ Change your IP to…”
“ Change your documentroot to…”
“ Change your database server to…”

Be kind to Joomla!
FTP/Apache configuration
Permissions to install, maintain and use components.
PHP configuration
Safemode, etc.
MySQL setup/configuration
Replication, Backups, Restore, Retention

Fresh Statistics @ Byte Clusters (12-6-2009) (Dutch)
116.754 aanvallen tegengehouden per week, dat is 5.000.000 per jaar.
Geextrapoleerd, 92.000 verschillende IP's per jaar
Een beperk aantal IP's zorgt voor de meeste aanvallen.
De top tien IP's van vanmiddag zijn verantwoordelijk voor 54% van de aanvallen.
62% van de aanvallen is gericht op bugs Joomla. Zelfs bugs uit 2006/2007(CVE-2006-3774, CVE-2007-2089) worden nog gebruikt.
69% van de aanvallen doen een "remote file inclusion". Als die lukt hebben de hackers in 1 klap 100% controle over de hele website. Deze hacks worden door aanpassingen van Byte aan PHP zowiezo tegengehouden.

En...
HOPLA!
And...
HOPLA!

Joomla Security Incidents
Mass scale, automated hacks
Goal (money) oriented (spam, phishing, identity theft)
Daily hack attempts
Joomla Host?
Hosting company should actively monitor versions (and mail customers and shut down sites)
Emergency patching?
Severe vulnerability
Limited fallout possibility of emergency patch

Elmina Fortress, Ghana

Elmina Fortress Gatekeeper

Support/Developer Friendly Host
Give good support
Share knowledge
Announce maintenance (Apache, PHP, MySQL, file).
Plan maintenance windows (nightly).
Provide test environment for technical migrations.
Not: Ban Joomla.

Hosting Trends - Business

Hosting Trends - Business
Sites become ever more important for business.
More business critical applications online.
Peak Performance / Slashdot-effect.
Your moment to shine
Your site is down
SLA
on uptime
on performance
on application
Open source & developer independence.

Hosting Trends - Tech
Clusterhosting (high availability)
Cloud computing
Virtualized servers? VPS

Further discussion
What are we going to talk about?
Vote @ twitter.com/Byte_Internet ;)
Coole gadgets bij Byte
Feature wishlist
Business and Joomla = Specialization en cooperation = Work together, not against each other

Cool gadgets @ Byte
PHP optimization (path checks).
Test environment (PHP, MySQL, Apache 2.0).
Hacker Slayer.
Dynamic Database Resolution.
BPU
Byte Performance Units
VIAGRA
Villain Isolation And Growling Restrainment Area

2. Feature Wish List Joomla Host
Automated Maintenance
Joomla
Components, Modules, Extensions
Certification of third party components
Rating
Centralized tracking

Specialization en cooperation (1)
Focus on limited amount of things
IBM (market cap = 142.000.000.000, revenue 95.000.000.000) sells PC branch to Lenovo.
One-person webdesign (revenue 25.000) company provides template design, builds components, makes business cards and can assist in building a computer network. Ow, and some Java programming.

Specialization en cooperation (2)
Wikipedia
Division of labour or specialization is the specialization of cooperative labour in specific, circumscribed tasks and roles, intended to increase the productivity of labour.
Specialization
Better results
Less time
Less effort
More fun
Higher price
Non-specialization
Also fun :)

The End
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