What is Aegir?

Aegir is a set of four Drupal modules. Which are Eldir, Hosting, Hostmaster, Provision. Aegir helps you maintain your Drupal sites. It is a powerful hosting system that can create, deploy and manage Drupal sites.

Once Aegir is installed, you can setup a Drupal site in just a few clicks. Aegir creates the web server's site configuration files, the site's database, runs the Drupal installation process and reloads the relevant services, all automatically.

How does Aegir work?

Aegir provides you with a simple Drupal based control panel for managing your entire network of websites.

To deploy a new site you simply create a new Site node. That site node then provides you with a collection of tasks that can be executed against that site (Backup, Restore, Migrate (upgrade), Clone, Disable, Delete and more).

What can Aegir do?

One of the great architectural features of Drupal is that you can have multiple web sites that share a common platform of modules, themes and other code used to manage content and design. If you make a change to the platform (e.g. update a module, change a theme, etc.) all sites based on the platform are immediately updated. However, each site has its own database and file system that can be tailored to the specific needs of the site.