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 #42PrometSource.com

@akucharskiAndrew Kucharski

andy@promethost.com

773-525-8255