Promet Source presentation given during Drupal Con 2011 at main stage - w.

1. What Should You Expect from you Hosting Company?

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

3. 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

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

5. 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.

6. Small Business Needs

7. What does everyone Want?
High Availability

8. Scalability

9. Drupal Expertise - Performance

10. Drupal Expertise - Security

11. Technical Support that knows Drupal

12. NO Server Maintenance
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13. 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

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

15. Booth #42
PrometSource.com
@akucharski
Andrew Kucharski
andy@promethost.com
773-525-8255