Some of you may have noticed we recently gave the Bryght hosting system a facelift and added some functionality under the hood. Bryght Drupal hosting combines a custom install profile with a tuned hosting environment, incorporating best practices used on Drupal.org, to make a fully functional, out-of-the-box VPS.

Raincity Studios' design touch is liberally sprinkled throughout the new Bryght.com site, as well as the install profile, with fresh themes and interface refinements. Along with the re-designed interface and improved sign-up forms, the new iteration of Bryght is available in Mandarin Chinese along with a fully translated Chinese Drupal install profile. More world languages are on the way to help spread Drupal to an even wider audience.

Bryght hosting comes in two flavors, Shared (Light) and VPS (in 3 service levels). Both run the Bryght install profile which is created with the Install Profile API and Profile Wizard available from Drupal.org.

With Bryght hosting, sites are easily provisioned and come pre-configured with TinyMCE, tags and other features to help quick-start projects, and include modules from CCK and Views to Feedburner and Mollom. With hundreds of hosted Drupal sites of experience and the stewardship of Narayan Newton (part of the Drupal.org infrastructure team), the Bryght server environment is tuned specifically for Drupal with Opcode caching, SNMP polling, Nagios/NRPE monitoring, Puppet central management and now including Cacti performance monitoring to assist support staff in finding and fixing client issues.

Bryght hosting is powered by Hostmaster, the brain child of super-dev Adrian Rossouw and co-maintained by Koumbit. HM has evolved into Ægir which is fully Drupal-native and enables you to efficiently deploy and manage multiple sites. Of course, you are invited to get involved in Ægir development.

Beyond more world languages, additional configurations are in the works (i.e. install profiles for podcasters, for magazines, for events, etc.), as well as hosting for Acquia's new Carbon install. Raincity Studios' roadmap for Bryght also includes CDN integration, cloud services provisioning (such as automated Drupal deployment to EC2) and support for automated Xen Virtual Machine management.

The team of committed community contributors at Raincity Studios is pleased to offer these new Bryght hosting offerings to the market in hopes of introducing Drupal to a wider audience. Stop by Bryght.com to take Bryght Light for a 30-day test drive or consider hosting your next client project on a Bryght VPS.