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

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.