Site Manager Platform as a Service: We will outline TERMINALFOUR’s new Platform as a Service solution. The business case for clients, the technology behind it and the practical approaches to availing of the solution.

1. The Aviva Stadium, Dublin, 21-22 November 2013

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Growth in cloud adoption across markets
Building on “salesforce” style model
SaaS vs PaaS vs IaaS
70+ servers already deployed for 20+ clients
Options to bundle support & Platform in
single model…
• Typical Deployments
• 1x CMS cloud server
• 2x Web cloud servers
• 1x Load Balancer
• Available in North America, Europe &
Australia
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Single solution for support & hosting
Outsourced CMS and Web server(s)
Spread costs over contract term
Increased “ity’s”
• Reliability
• Security
• Availability
• Maintainability
• Faster deployment & development
• Ease of upgrades
• Scale for peak demands
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4. Availability
Security
Reliability
• Load
balanced web
servers with
failover
• Can scale up
(or down)
based on
need
• Can deploy
across
regions
• Locked down
configuration
• Firewall etc.
• Optional
additional
security
monitoring
• Ongoing
Monitoring
by hosting
provider and
T4
• Single
consistent
image
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5. Deployment
Delivery Speed
Support
• Up & running
in minutes
• Publish live if
required (no
need for
transfer)
• Pre packaged
modules
• PHP base
• Calendar,
• Eforms
• Login
• XML search
• Others….
• Single
Environment
• Faster
support
turnaround
• Barry loves it!
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6. • Authentication
• Can be tied into your LDAP etc.
• Access to your business systems
• For content syncer, data object etc.
• Site to Site VPN available as additional option
• Hybrid deployments
• Possible but needs analysis
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7. • More “out of the box” modules
• Clustered PaaS deployments
• For very large scale sites
• On demand cloud servers
• mysite.on.terminalfour – prototype available
already to partners
• Will be used for v8 betas
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8. The Aviva Stadium, Dublin, 21-22 November 2013

9. TERMINALFOUR Site Manager – PaaS – Why?
• Enterprise-grade Linux servers
– Configured for security, stability and supportability
• Proven technologies at each tier
– Carefully chosen components and architecture
• Information Security is not an afterthought
– Multiple backup tiers
– World leading provider of enterprise hosting
• Comprehensive Solution
– From content creation to distribution
• Pre-configured for fastest deployment
– Working … from the start … the actual start
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10. TERMINALFOUR Site Manager – PaaS - Architecture
• Architecture allows for closer integration
of components
• Internal Communication
– Fast, secure private network
• Publish Live
– NFS mounts – Fast, Secure and Stable
• Site Manager Everywhere
– Content Creation from anywhere, anytime
• Scalable for Demand
– Add a web server or a loadbalancer
– Firewall option for VPN
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11. TERMINALFOUR Site Manager – PaaS - Stacks
Site Manager
Calendar
Forms
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12. Site Manager – PaaS - Security
• Fail2Ban
• Detects brute force attacks and kills the connection
• Ignores T4 IPs; we can’t type sometimes...
• Process Accounting
• Logs all user activity, commands, logins, resource use
• Firewall
• Restrictive host firewall - on by policy
• Configured to only allow necessary services
• Active monitoring – so it stays on!
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13. Site Manager – PaaS – Monitoring and
Alerting
Agent Based Metrics
Disk Space
Firewall
Uptime
RAM
Load
Apache
Tomcat
Database
Network Based Metrics
Site Manager
Ping
Site Availability
Tomcat
Apache
Backups
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14. TERMINALFOUR Site Manager – PaaS – Historic Monitoring
Health Monitoring Graphs
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15. TERMINALFOUR Site Manager – PaaS – Backups
CMS Data
Server Image
File Based
• Daily
• Daily
• Daily
• N-Gigabites
of retention
• 30-day
retention
• 30-day
retention
• Site Manager
Rollback
• Server
Reimaging
and scaling
• Granular
Restores
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16. Site Manager – PaaS - Clients
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17. Questions or Comments?
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