Compare BOA Options

BOA managed on your server? Hosted with us? Or fully Do-It-Yourself?

BOA managed on your remote server is good if you prefer to delegate all sysadmin and server maintenance tasks to experts, while still running everything on servers of your choice.

BOA hosted with us (Power, Edge or Cluster) is perfect for highest possible security and scalability. You can focus on your own area of expertise and have all the rest delivered, and just working.

The fully Do-It-Yourself option is good if you want to use our 100% open source BOA stack on your own VPS, or if you don’t need the power of scalable on-the-fly environment.

By the way, did you know that even single hosted Aegir Engine has built-in CPU power and RAM auto-scalability which would cost you $960/month on Linode, just for the bare server? Yes, even single hosted Engine can safely go into stratospheric levels at 32 CPU Cores and 256 GB RAM for load and traffic spikes — free of charge. Your hosted Aegir cost depends only on your database, disk space and PHP-FPM workers needs.

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Remote Server

€499

/month /server

Server cost not included
Server maintenance not included
Server monitoring included
Octopus Migration €499 extra OTO
Linux VServer setup €499 extra OTO
Regular BOA upgrades included
AWS backups require S3 bucket
Training in the first 30 days
Aegir System User Access
System Root Access
Support: Helpdesk + Email

Hosted Power

€296

/month /engine

Server cost included
Server maintenance included
Server monitoring included
Octopus Migration €499 extra OTO
Linux VServer not required
Regular BOA upgrades included
Daily AWS backups for 30 days
Training in the first 30 days
Aegir System User Access
No System Root Access
Support: Helpdesk, Email + SMS Alert
 Free

Open DIY

???

/month /server

Server cost not included
Server maintenance not included
Server monitoring not included
Octopus Import not included
Linux VServer required on bare metal
BOA upgrades not included
AWS backups not included
Training not included
Aegir System User Access
System Root Access
Support: GitHub + Gitter

Important Details

Your Aegir Engine Hosted Power system will be provisioned in 24-48 hours after the purchase, Mon-Sat, but in most cases it's handled the same business day. The provisioning process may be additionally extended with custom schedule if it involves importing remote Octopus instance.

Remote Server support includes autonomous, unmanaged, every 3 seconds uptime/self-healing monitoring with Site24x7, Pagerduty, Ksplice rebootless kernel updates for supported kernels (excluding Linode, Slicehost/Rackspace), weekly updates for OS, security and version upgrades for Aegir Hosting System when released and default platforms when new BOA system release is available.

Both Hosted Power and Remote Server subscriptions cover also basic Aegir training and support in the first 30 days after the installation. Note that ongoing Aegir training and troubleshooting after the first month is not included. Drupal sites upgrades and general troubleshooting is not included. Non-standard Aegir or BOA customization and support is not included. All not included services are subject to either extended support hours and/or extended support subscriptions, billed separately, depending on your needs.

For Remote Server support we require a VPS with clean, minimal OS -- currently Debian 9 Stretch is required on your server, with no other services installed, besides SSH and optionally mail server. At least 4 GB RAM and 2 CPU are required (the more the better).

Supported virtualization systems include: Linux KVM, Linux VServer, Xen, Microsoft Hyper-V or VMware ESXi (but excluding vCloud Air). Important: if you prefer to use bare metal dedicated machine, the setup will require also installation of Linux VServer system with custom kernel and for this to work you will need to provide at least one extra IP address available to be enabled later (but not enabled on the physical machine networking yet).

Bare metal dedicated machine based BOA installation which requires also Linux VServer with custom kernel is free of charge with Remote Server subscription paid at least quarterly, and otherwise requires a one-time-only (OTO) extra payment of €499.

Please note that Remote Server support doesn't include AWS backups (unless you will provide your AWS S3 bucket details), Octopus or sites migration nor physical server support, which is a competence of your host. All not included services are subject to either extended support hours and/or extended support subscriptions, billed separately, depending on your needs.

Existing Octopus/Aegir migration is free of charge with Remote Server and Hosted Power subscription paid at least quarterly, and otherwise requires a one-time-only (OTO) extra payment of €499. Migration can be scheduled with at least 5 days notice once purchased, to guarantee availability for preparations, migration and post-migration assistance, which typically takes 6-12 hours, depending on the instance size, with expected downtime of less than 10 minutes.

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