We're working to package up Drupal as a standalone Drupal installation that's turn key on a virtual server. We already do something similar for our hosted services (we run dozens of servers full of Drupal XEN-based VPS on our infrastructure).
What we're thinking about doing is providing a speed optimized image on XEN. VMWare and Parallels ports can be provided if people want it. That's the purpose of this post.
Also, we plan on providing it on CentOS. But I know Ubuntu and Debian - again if there is demand.
by admin on Fri, 05/25/2007 - 12:32Recently we had to figure out how to run XEN with bridged networking for our Now & XEN project. This is how to do it:
Edit /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp:
(network-script network-bridge) > (network-script network-bridge-both)chmod a+rx /etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge-both
by admin on Wed, 05/23/2007 - 08:24 Watchdog is a source of a lot of the database corruption and problems with Drupal and MySQL.
Khalid has a patch for Drupal 6, but in order for him to be able to find the time to backport the patch to Drupal 5, we need to sponsor it.
There are a few main reasons that this patch is worth supporting:
by admin on Mon, 05/21/2007 - 23:21 The seven + one things that determine the value of a technology startup and the problem with Defensive patents
After reading a recent article on patents, I felt somewhat compelled to make a few comments. Venture capitalists have their checkbooks out right now, and that’s something that a lot of entrepreneurs are noticing.
