Shiney new home for Sensor Hub projects, Acquia Dev Cloud

Cross posted from sensorhub.org.

Last night I set up an Acquia Dev Cloud account for my work on the Sensor Hub project. Some of the recent projects we've used Sensor Hub need more power than just a shared host, as we've found, because importing and parsing large amounts of data takes a lot of horse power. I'm also interested in making my life easier by standardizing more of the technology stack Sensor Hub relies on and Dev Cloud may prove to be a great piece in the stack. In the same vein, I'm also currently rewriting the Sensor Hub module to integrate with the Drupal installation profile Open Atrium to pass off some of the UX and IA Sensor Hub would otherwise have to tackle. I'm also considering the Acquia's Drupal installation profile called Commons as an option for integration with Sensor Hub over Open Atrium considering Acquia's commitment to maintaining Commons may prove to be stronger than Phase II's commitment to maintaining Open Atrium (Acquia's dev speed on Commons has been at mach five for the past few months). There may also be some synergy by using Acquia's Commons on Acquia's Dev Cloud. Either way, integrating Sensor Hub with OA paves the way for a potentially easy port to Commons in the future given that both installation profiles are Organic Groups centric.

Currently my development on Sensor Hub Beta2 has been in my local sandbox but I'll be pushing up my progress to the Dev Cloud this weekend.