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As Drupal grows in popularity as a robust enterprise-grade CMS, there is a growing need for high quality hosting. One of the more interesting alternatives is Acquia Hosting - a specialized Drupal hosting solution from Acquia. Acquia is the firm co-counded by Dries Buytaert, who also started the Drupal project in 2001. Acquia's Drupal hosting platform is based on the Amazon cloud infrastructure and is highly optimized for the requirements of Drupal.

On our quest to offer the best possible hosting solution for large-scale Drupal sites here at Acquia, we recently added support for memcache to our Acquia Hosting platform.

Exciting news today! We are announcing that Acquia closed $8.5 million in Series C funding. Combined with our Series A funding and our Series B funding, this brings our total funding to $23.5 million USD.

Tips for Acquia Hosting Development

Here at Appnovation, we frequently use the Acquia hosting platform for our clients. The Dev Cloud and Managed Cloud are impressive platforms that fit well for many Drupal sites being built today. I’ve listed some items below that have helped with the overall build quality and ease of use for these platforms.

Utilities - Drush aliases

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Drupal site building often involves moving a site from one environment to another: from a local development environment to a staging server on the web to a full production cluster. This short screencast shows how to export a site from Drupal Gardens and import that site into Acquia Hosting. Read full article »

Barry Jaspan (aka bjaspan) talks about the Amazon Web Services infrastructure that he engineered for running Acquia Hosting.

As I discussed in my previous screencast, Drupal site building workflow involves a separate development, staging, and production environment. The different environments use different databases, generally on different database servers since you do not want your testing activities to impact your production site. Traditionally this means you need to juggle multiple Drupal settings.php files containing your database credentials and manually configure database replication and failover yourself.

so, i was reading the announcement about free forever dev accounts at acquia: https://www.acquia.com/blog/acquia-dev-cloud-free-developer-tier

...and was thinking about some limitations within drupal gardens (and the intended audience)

NVidia recently launched their new Tegra developer community on Drupal. See http://developer.nvidia.com/tegra. The announcement of the latest Tegra 2 chipset was one of the major news items at CES earlier this month.