Sector(s)
Our client is the largest network of entrepreneurs worldwide. The organization provides start-up financing, professional support services, and connections to a global network across the business and social sectors, and a platform for people dedicated to changing the world. It has its presence in around 70 countries across five continents.
Key Highlights:
- Reduced the turnaround time for provisioning and deprovisioning for our client from 24 hours to 15 minutes
- With the automated process for provisioning, they saw a lot of cost savings as well
- Enabled our client to have complete control over its systems
About the project
The Goal
Our client has multiple websites running on Drupal. But in order to create or bring down a website, it was dependent on a Canada based consultant. To reduce this dependency, they needed a Drupal development agency that could make the provisioning and de-provisioning of sub domains a simpler task.
The Solution
Aegir, an open source web hosting control panel, is used to simplify the deploying and managing of Drupal websites. It allows the provision and de-provisioning of websites easily. Fostering Linux, set up an Aegir server and handled the monitoring, tuning, performance and measurement of the website management processes. Here's a quick video guide to how they did it.
We decided to go with Aegir as it:
- Allows creating different clients[S2]
- It allows the creation of different sites. This made it the ideal solution for the challenge Ashoka was facing.
- Easy-to-use interface: Even novice users can manage the provisioning and de-provisioning process without needing extensive training.
- Free solution: Aegir is a free and open source solution. This saves money for our client.
Why Drupal was chosen
Our client had multiple websites, all of which run on Drupal. It had a a common theme across all the websites, with the same content layout and navigation patterns. This was done to ensure a consistent user experience across websites, as well as to save resources, time and money on creating or pulling down an existing country website.
Since the entire sent up was on Drupal, the project, moving ahead, had to be on Drupal as well.
Technical Specifications
Drupal version:
Business Benefits
- Huge savings of time: The turnaround time for provisioning and deprovisioning for our client reduced from an average of 24 hours to a mere 15 minutes.
- Cost savings: Aegir solution is open source and hence free. Earlier the entire process was manual and dependent on an external resource. With the automated process, our client saw a lot of cost savings as well.
- Complete control over systems: The entire process is automated and the interface for provisioning and deprovisioning of resources is with the client itself, and not an external agency.
