Drupion Blogs

Is your Drupal site really slow? Switch to Drupion!

Submitted by Drupion on Wed, 06/05/2013 - 14:38

Drupal is known to have a very powerful hook system, that makes a developer's life easier by simply following a specific naming convention and implementing a specific hook to get the code auto-discovered and called in the appropriate spot. However, this power of Drupal comes at a cost — every single enabled module has to be loaded on every single request to see if it implements a necessary hook, which means Drupal is very DB intensive.

Drupion starts offering additional add-on services

Submitted by Drupion on Tue, 05/14/2013 - 00:18

In order to take full advantage of easiness of using our internal domain name system (DNS), you need to delegate your domain name to your Drupion server. This will allow you to add unlimited number of domain names or subdomains to your Drupion server and never care of respective A, MX and NS records, since they will be created automatically for you.

Drupion upgrades all its CentOS 6.3 based servers to CentOS 6.4

Submitted by Drupion on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 15:40

We are pleased to announce we have upgraded all our CentOS 6.3 based DrupionOS servers to CentOS 6.4, that had been officially released on March 9, 2013.

CentOS-6.4 is based on the upstream release EL 6.4 and includes packages
from all variants. All upstream repositories have been combined into
one, to make it easier for end users to work with.

There are many fundamental changes in this release, compared with the

Drupal 7.21 with "Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch" enforced

Submitted by Drupion on Wed, 03/06/2013 - 19:27

Drupal Security Team has announced today Drupal 7.21 as maintenance release which contain fixes for security vulnerabilities. No security fixes are included in this release; however, sites which were unable to upgrade to Drupal 7.20 (or upgraded but made modifications to disable the security fixes included within it) should upgrade to Drupal 7.21 to obtain additional security protection. See the Drupal 7.21 release notes for further information.

Drupion successfully passes Trustwave's validation

Submitted by Drupion on Sat, 02/23/2013 - 13:40

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is the payment card industry data security requirement for merchants that store, process or transmit cardholder information, and has been endorsed by all the major card brands - Visa Inc., MasterCard Worldwide, Discover Network, American Express and JCB. The PCI DSS is a framework for the secure handling of cardholder data.

Promotional campaign for hosting in Europe

Submitted by Drupion on Fri, 02/01/2013 - 02:00

Drupion announces a 3-month promotional campaign for new customers subscribing for shared hosting and VPS packages on our servers in Europe.

The campaign kicks off today and will end on April 30, 2013. All new customers will be eligible for a 20 % discount on the cost of the package for one year from the date of subscription.

To take advantage of this opportunity please use the following coupon when subscribing:

How to properly upgrade Atomic repository on Drupion servers

Submitted by Drupion on Fri, 01/18/2013 - 14:44

Atomic repository is installed on all CentOS based Drupion servers by default. Today, on January 18, 2013, Atomic repository has announced a new release 1.0-15, which will be automatically offered to upgrade when logging into your Virtualmin Control Panel. Please do not upgrade anything in Virtualmin this time as it can break your system. Instead, please create a support ticket and Drupion staff-members will gladly upgrade your box or, alternatively, perform exactly the following steps:

Drupal 7.19 and 6.28 patched with enforced "Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch" released

Submitted by Drupion on Wed, 01/16/2013 - 16:40

Drupal Security Team has announced today Drupal 7.19 and Drupal 6.28 as maintenance releases which contain fixes for security vulnerabilities. Drupal 7.19 and 6.28 were released in response to the discovery of security vulnerabilities. Details can be found in the official security advisory: SA-CORE-2013-001

To fix the security problem, upgrading your existing sites to either Drupal 7.19 or Drupal 6.28 is strongly recommended.

Drupal 7.18 and 6.27 released

Submitted by Drupion on Thu, 12/20/2012 - 00:17

Drupal 7.18 and Drupal 6.27, maintenance releases which contain fixes for security vulnerabilities, are now available for download.

A vulnerability was identified that allows blocked users to appear in user search results, even when the search results are viewed by unprivileged users.

On Virtualmin 3.96gpl Security Update

Submitted by Drupion on Fri, 12/14/2012 - 14:46

After Virtualmin announced 3.96gpl Security Update, number of VPS customers experienced issues currently actively discussed by both Drupal (http://drupal.org/node/1269780) and Virtialmin (http://www.virtualmin.com/node/24551, http://www.virtualmin.com/node/24527, http://virtualmin.com/node/24493) communities.

If you haven't fix this issue yet and still see the following message on your Virtualmin control panel: