fidzu : cms

Somewhere out there a vanilla Ægir server is still quietly serving its Drupal sites, years after the person who set it up moved on. The aegir2boa toolset gives these classic estates a supported road into BOA: a read-only preflight which grades your box, an in-place Apache to Nginx flip proven on a scratch port before any handover, and a remote adoption which pauses, dumps, ships and registers each site while the old box becomes a small proxy where putting a site back is one file move. Every acting verb rehearses first, one clean rehearsal buys exactly one live run, and until DNS moves there is a drilled way back from every step; drilled meaning drilled: four full runs on throwaway boxes, an HTTPS estate with a composer platform, a mixed Drupal 6 and 7 estate, an Ubuntu source carried into Percona 8.4, then all of it again into both database generations, on the very tool bytes you would download. Free and open source, and it never asks for root database access on the box it is rescuing.

02 Sep 2026 8:09pm GMT

A weekend fix built for The DropTimes now supports sites its maintainer may never see, bringing the responsibilities of public module maintenance into focus.

02 Sep 2026 4:31pm GMT

A perfectly completed ticket can still solve the wrong problem. Tom Hollevoet argues that better Drupal delivery begins with understanding the need behind the request.

02 Sep 2026 1:35pm GMT