3:47am Sep 15, 2012
Commerce hosting
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I'm working on a project with a business model similar to Wordpress.com and Drupal Gardens: we allow people to create a site for free then up-sell them on stuff like access to more themes, etc.*
We really want to use Commerce (for various reasons) so I've been looking into setting up a D7 + Commerce front-end with an Aegir back-end for provisioning sites, connected by Aegir Services.
I noticed there's some talk of working on Aegir Services and Commerce integration and would like to know: who's interested in working on Aegir Commerce and Aegir Services? Are you up for some co-operation and do you need the integration done for a particular deadline?
* It's for a niche market though, not competing with either of those ideas in any way.
#1
I've been looking into doing something similar to this for a while and recently started working on the integration. So far I have set up a separate site for the commerce side (due to it needing Drupal 7) then created a module to send the info to Aegir and instruct Drush to install the site. To get round the login issues I have been working on a Single Sign On module for this.
So far its been fairly simple to achieve will get the code for the module posted on here when I have finished the integration.
#2
How have you been going about it: using Services or SSH with certificates? I nearly got things working sufficiently using SSH, but changed my mind when I saw others are leaning towards using Services module and REST.
Also, I'd encourage you to share your code, even if it's in a Sandbox, as soon as possible so I can help improve it with a patch or three. :)
Have you seen Bakery, is it not a good fit for what you're doing?
Hope this post doesn't seem demanding, I'm really pleased to hear someone else is working on similar problems!
Also, was just talking to someone from Koumbit on e-mail and they've just created: http://drupal.org/project/commerce_hosting