APP:Host Drupal Hosting
I remember being asked what it was like hosting a Drupal website by a very senior I.T. person in a very large organisation. I had a think for a bit and replied:
"Imagine the best party you have ever been to in your life, and then imagine the worst. Running a website running Drupal can be both of these - like any party - it all depends on who shows up - or in a Drupal context, which modules you decide to use."
Now 'module abuse' is very true of many CMS & LMS systems out there, Wordpress and Moodle to name but a few. But in my opinion, there is no platform out there that has such a vast catalogue of truly awesome modules, but at the same time, an equally vast number of truly awful ones.
It's a shame, but it's typically the 'awful' state in which we are handed Drupal deployments to host, after all - serious problems require serious solutions, people know that we are the best chance of making things awesome again.
Staging Server Included
So there is probably no single application in our speciality top six collection which benefits more from a staging server, something which is included with all of our Drupal hosting deployments. Hosting a Drupal site without a staging server... we would say this would be seriously 'Risky Business'.
Do you remember the party scene in that film? So just like that.
APP:Host Drupal Hosting - Server Specifications
| BASE PRODUCTION SERVER | STAGING SERVER | |
| SERVER SUPPORT | Fully managed | Fully managed |
| vCPU | 4 | 1 |
| DISK | 100GB SSD | 100GB SAS |
| RAM | 8GB RAM | 2GB RAM |
| SSL OFFLOAD | Yes | Yes |
| SSL VPN | Yes | Yes |
| DEDICATED SECURE VLAN | Yes | Yes |
| FIREWALL | PaloAlto | PaloAlto |
| SERVER BACK-UP | R1Soft | R1Soft |
| LOCATION | UK Datacentre | UK Datacentre |
Single Node APP:Host Drupal Hosting Solution
1 X Standard APP:Host Drupal server
• Oracle Linux
• LiteSpeed Webserver 2-CPU
• New Relic APM Essentials for web server monitoring as standard
• Interworx Panel (unlimited domains / secondary domains)
• MySQL Server
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Two Node APP:Host Drupal Hosting Solution
1 X Standard APP:Host Drupal server
• Oracle Linux
• LiteSpeed Webserver 2-CPU
• New Relic APM for web server monitoring as standard
• Interworx Panel (unlimited domains / secondary domains)
1 X Standard APP:Host MySQL server
• Oracle Linux
• Interworx Panel (unlimited domains / secondary domains)
• MySQL Server
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Three Node APP:Host Drupal Hosting Solution
2 X Standard APP:Host Drupal server (Load balanced with vTM)
• Oracle Linux
• LiteSpeed Webserver 2-CPU
• New Relic APM for web server monitoring as standard
• Interworx Panel (unlimited domains / secondary domains)
1 X Standard APP:Host MySQL server
• Oracle Linux
• Interworx Panel (unlimited domains / secondary domains)
• MySQL Server
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Five Node APP:Host Drupal Hosting Solution
3 X Standard APP:Host Drupal server (Load balanced with vTM)
• Oracle Linux
• LiteSpeed Webserver 2-CPU
• New Relic APM for web server monitoring as standard
• Interworx Panel (unlimited domains / secondary domains)
2 X Standard APP:Host MySQL server
• Oracle Linux
• Interworx Panel (unlimited domains / secondary domains)
• MySQL Server