Hostmaster

This information was copied from the Overview wiki entry on the Hostmaster group.

This project has not had a release yet, and if you are not interested in helping develop the system, it is not recommended that you install it at this time.

What is Hostmaster?

Hostmaster is a distributed instance management system, that allows you to administrate many Drupal sites across one or more servers, through a Drupal based administration front end. It is designed to help solve many of the common problems that administrators come across when providing mass hosting solutions, by providing a turn-key solution to deploying and managing Drupal sites and related services.

What do I need to run Hostmaster?

The primary requirement for being able to run the system, is having full access to the machine you intend to run Hostmaster on. Due to the types of access and configuration required, Hostmaster will not run in a shared hosting environment. A unix environment is recommended, as many features might not available on a windows based host.

Furthermore, because Hostmaster is Drupal based, it requires that you meet the requirements for running Drupal on your server.

Where can I get Hostmaster?

Hostmaster is developed and distributed on the Drupal contributions cvs repository.

There are three project pages for the three main components of the system.

• Hostmaster: an install profile for a Drupal application which manages hosted sites.
• Hosting project contains the support module used by the hostmaster project. This module defines all the necessary node types , relationships and functionality. Theoretically it can operate without the install profile, but this is unsupported at this point.
• Provision project contains the back end provisioning framework. This project is designed to be useful separately from the front end.

At present there is no stable release of the project, and you will need to retrieve all source code from CVS. The front end additionally requires the views module, and both the back end and front end require the drush module to operate.

Hostmaster was developed by Bryght / Raincity Studios and partners.

Releases

Official releases	Date	Size	Links	Status
5.x-0.1-alpha3	2008-Jul-10	7.99 KB	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 5.x