a look under the hood at acquia hosting for drupal sites
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A Look Under the Hood at Acquia Hosting for Drupal Sites
Jim SalemVP, Platform Services
Acquia
@jcsalem
Bryan HouseSr. Director, Marketing
Acquia
@bryanhouse
Michael HaagClient Advisor
Acquia
Upcoming Acquia Webinars
Thursday January 21st
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Thursday January 28th
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Thursday February 11th
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Introduction
Jim Salem– Vice President, Platform Services - Acquia
Overview
ArchitectureTechnical overviewPricingQuestions
Why Acquia Hosting?
Optimized for Drupal scalability & performance
Integrated with Drupal developer workflows
One-stop shop, “No finger-pointing”
World class Drupal and systems expertise
Who’s Using Acquia Hosting?
Acquia is staffed with very knowledgeable Drupal experts . With previous Drupal support providers, we would endure these protracted support cycles, suffering lengthy periods of downtime.
Our initial Drupal team simply weren’t experienced at preparing an iron-clad architecture that could withstand traffic intensive demands. Acquia is clearly experienced, and has specific strategies, testing procedures, and monitoring tools to ensure we can handle traffic loads today, tomorrow, and next year.
Acquia has demonstrated superior expertise in a very simple way – they excel at discovering and solving problems immediately.
Robert Wise, System Administrator, MotherJones.com
What is Acquia Hosting?
Page Caching Load Balancing
PHP
Web Servers
Caching
Drupal Modules
Monitoring
Acquia SearchMollom
Amazon AWS
Smart Routing Layer
Drupal Engine Layer
Cloud Services Layer
Secure Infrastructure
Layer
Interweb
Each layer is composed of multiple redundant servers. If one fails, there is little or no downtime!Email Backup
DatabaseFile
Storage
Let’s dig in a little deeper
Page Caching Load BalancingSmart Routing
Layer
Acquia Hosting Architecture
Intelligent Request Routing
Static page caching
Dynamic load balancing
Varnish, nginx
PHP
Web Servers
Caching
Drupal Modules
Acquia Hosting Architecture
Drupal Engine Layer
Drupal Configuration Flexibility
Supports any Drupal configuration
Core
Contrib
Custom
Scalable Grid Architecture
Dynamic elasticity
Content delivered by multiple web servers
Performance Tuned Drupal Engine
OpCode caching
PHP memory
Stack optimization
Drupal Developer Workflow
Hosted SVN repository
Staging server
Monitoring
Acquia SearchMollomCloud Services
Layer
Acquia Hosting Architecture
Email Backup
DatabaseFile
Storage
Amazon AWSSecure
Infrastructure Layer
Operate & Extend Drupal Websites
Proactive Monitoring
24x7 automated alert systems
Dynamic elasticity
Capacity planning
Scalable, Multi-node File Servers
Better reliability and performance
Supports multiple web servers
Gluster FS
Database Replication
Master / master replication
Real-time db sync
Nightly Offsite Backups
Stored in geographically
Full site & database
Customer downloadable
Geographically separate storage
Proactive Security Management
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Security patches and updates
Built on Amazon’s SAS 70 Type 2 certified infrastructure
Addressing Common Drupal Scalability Issues
Problem Acquia Hosting Solution
Inefficient SQL queries
Identification:• Monitoring• MySQL slow query logs
Resolution options:• Support recommendation on module
tweaks• Additional hardware• Memcache
PHP slownessAPC OpCode cachingVarnish page caching• PressFlow in use
Difficult to implement multiple web nodes
Multi-node file services
Static file performance
Varnish / nginx
your website will rock!
but wait,there’s more…
Coming Soon
Memcache
CDN
Built-in log analysis tools
Anti-virus scanning on uploads
How Much Does Acquia Hosting Cost?
Starts at $500/month– Requires an Enterprise support subscription
Additional charges based on…– Bandwidth– Page views– Storage– Remote administration– SSL certificates
Acquia Hosting
Optimized for Drupal scalability & performance
Integrated with Drupal developer workflows
World class Drupal and systems expertise
one-stop shopDrupal application + infrastructure support
Questions
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