Way back when, in the early days of CiviCRM, there were two CMS’s supported, Drupal and Joomla, and CiviCRM’s codebase was complicated, but ran reasonably well. After a few years, the code was greatly improved but also significantly expanded to include a tremendous amount of additional functionality, and thus CiviCRM became a serious server resource hog. Finding hosting that could run it at all was sometimes a challenge and finding a host that could run it well was difficult.
Simuliidae: an open-source design for hosting with containers
My recent blog posts have talked about containers, Docker and why I think they're a good fit for hosting CiviCRM. Here's a deeper dive into two design ideas that are part of my Simuliidae open source hosting project.
You can try these out using the project's Quick Start.
Hosting CiviCRM with Docker and Containers: Let's Share!
Let's share stories, ideas and code. Containers are good for sharing.
Enterprise Hosting for CiviCRM
CiviCRM Starter Kit on Pantheon’s click-and-play hosting
We have seen two recent breakthroughs for people who want to spend more time on implementing awesome websites and less time fiddling with hosting.