Flawless Mautic upgrades every time! Not an impossible dream, just a simple step by step guide…
You might be already suffering the consequences of an incomplete Mautic update without knowing about it!
Just make sure you don’t click that button yet!!! There’s a better way…
The adequate amount of hardware resources you need for your Mautic installation will depend on the Mautic features you’ll be using.
Find out how to accurately forecast the Mautic Requirements for your next Mautic installation and prevent Mautic from running slow.
As a Mautic Ops freelancer and Systems Architect, I have encountered several perfectly OK Mautic installations that where just terribly slow (to the point of not being usable anymore) but otherwise perfectly OK, what usually happens is that the new server is dimensioned accordingly to some basic rules, like 1GB of RAM for every 10K users. This way of forecasting your Mautic hardware requirements is too simplistic and will inevitably lead you to a slow-running Mautic installation.
UPDATED on October 14, 2019, for Mautic 2.15.3
With this Mautic tutorial, you will learn how to complete the Mautic 2.15.3 installation on a Virtual Private Server (VPS) with PHP 7.2 on top of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS in just about 7 minutes.
If you are a total newbie to the Linux command line, this tutorial was made specifically for you, it’s the best way to get started as I carefully designed it to have the fewer amount of commands possible, so it’s easier to understand and the probability of anything going sideways is minimal. It’s designed to give you a quick success using the command line so you can have an easy victory and gain the confidence to later advance towards more complex, more secure and better-optimized setups.
On the other hand, if you are more experienced with Linux, and don’t mind some extra complexity, this might be a better tutorial for you: Securing your Mautic Installation
There are 3 steps:
SaaS is all the rage in every industry and Marketing Automation is no exception, tools like Hubspot, Marketo, Pardot, Eloqua and many others to the count of more than a hundred MA SaaS tools!
However, SaaS tends to use a “one size fits all” service model (or better said, 3 sizes fits all), which tends to leave a big chunk of companies out of their offerings.
Your company might be one of the special outliers that don’t perfectly fit in the SaaS model. The good news is, most probably, Mautic will cover all of your needs.
Cron jobs are supposed to be the smartest and simplest way to automate things on a Linux server, and they are to some extent. However, its design, deeply rooted in the darkest corners of the Linux kernel, designed by the deep minds that created Linux itself, doesn’t always present itself as obvious to us marketers (or to any other kind of Linux Dummies), that’s probably why soooo many people have issues with cron jobs. Yes, maybe this is something that should be solved within the Mautic interface, maybe someday… in the meantime, let’s try to tackle this problem down, in a way even a marketer can do it 🙂
Many companies turn to Mautic in search of a more cost-effective way to enable their organizations for the future.
Since Mautic is free to download, yeiii! One could think running it at scale could be done for free too, however, Mautic is quite a complex piece of software, and depending on your requirements, it will also need some decent hardware to run on top of.
In this post, I’ll give you details about the costs involved and how to source what you need.
Every so often I get requests to deploy multi-tenant Mautic setups, those requests are usually from a Marketing agency that needs to run multiple Mautic instances for their customers or their internal usage, However, multi-tenancy is very often a misunderstood and misused concept.
Multi-tenancy is an architectural approach enabling a single instance of an application to be used by multiple organizations or users, the tenants. In multi-tenant apps, there is just one code base for everyone and the separation between clients is done in that single codebase and sustained by the database.
On the other hand, Multi-instance, what I call “Replication” provides each organization with its own codebase.
Let’s analyze in detail these 2 options and find out which is the best way to run Mautic for an Agency.
Mautic will run on any server that supports PHP and a MySQL compatible database, which is little short of saying it will run anywhere, you could run it on Linux, Windows, you could run it on your phone, what the heck! you could probably run it on your smart coffee maker!
But should you? Of course not, your coffee maker runs java! hehehe.
Now seriously, which is the best platform to run Mautic? As always, it depends, so I will try to give you enough pointers for you to choose the best option for your own situation.
UPDATED on October 14, 2019, for Mautic 2.15.3
This is part 2 of the Mautic installation tutorial, in part 2 we will secure our server in order to make it production ready.
This is a slightly more advanced installation process allowing for a more secure install of Mautic 2.15.3 on a Virtual Private Server (VPS) with PHP 7.2 on top of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This tutorial should take you between 10 and 20 minutes depending on your level of expertise with Mautic and Linux.
There’s much more to making backups than just copying files, as you probably know, you need a backup strategy. In this post, I’m not going to enter in detail on the strategic part. Anyway, I’m going to abide by the most basic and indispensable elements of a backup strategy, that is so, if you ever need your data, you have a certain guarantee that your data will remain available to you when most needed.
I’m going to start with a little bit of theory, I know it’s boring, but it will let you understand what you’re doing in the second part when we start using the console and giving instructions to the server.
There are many Mautic cron jobs you can use in your Mautic installation, but Mautic can get resource hungry over time, so you don’t really want to run them all, in fact, that would be a great mistake, you only have to add the cron jobs that you actually need in your own setup, based on your own Mautic installation and the Mautic features you’re currently using.
This is a guide to help you both, first discover and then choose the right Mautic cron jobs you want to deploy in order to have a perfectly smooth Mautic installation on your server.
Installing Mautic plugins or Mautic Mixins (as only God knows why they are officially named now) is really simple… most of the time…
But there’s always some obscure unofficial plugin that you really need so badly, and those always have little or no instructions and hence they refuse to install.
Don’t worry, it really is very simple, if you know a couple of tricks… Let’s start with the basics:
Yeah I know, this is pretty trivial, but I had made some snapshots of the process and thought, why not? Maybe someone gets stuck in one of the steps, like the database (I did the first time I installed Mautic) So here it is…
OK so after you complete the mautic installation, you have to navigate to your server or VPS, either by using the server’s IP or, if you have set up your DNS, using the domain name. After you do, and if everything went fine you will be presented with the following screens:
Troubleshooting Mautic is not usually simple, but it helps a lot if you know what to look for.
These 4 steps will get you there most of the time:
1) Check ALL your logs.
2) Check the Mautic output on your browser.
3) Search the Internet, especially Github.
4) Report your findings.
Mautic can do a whole lot of smart stuff for your email, except sending it! Mautic users have to use a third party service to send emails, in this post I’ll go over 3 different options for sending Mautic emails, the pros and cons of each and I’ll give you a final recommendation for your business type.
There’s a lot to consider when choosing the best email delivery for Mautic emails, for starters a lot of work can go into building Mautic campaigns, in those cases, the cost of sending emails will be just a small fraction of the overall spend and deliverability should be second to nothing. On the other hand, companies using Mautic to send newsletters or simpler DRIP campaigns might be more sensible to the cost of sending these emails. And finally, heavily IT bound companies might care less about pricing and will consider flexibility as the main feature to consider.
I have chosen 3 companies that will cater to each of those needs, keep reading!
Here are some basic guidelines for GDPR compliance in general. This information is not exclusive to Mautic, it applies to any company that wants to be GDPR compliant.
The basic data privacy rights of an EU citizen that we have to respect:
– The company is responsible for any data breach
– We have to obtain explicit consent to store and use data.
– Consent to store and use my personal data within or outside the EU.
– Inform users of where the data is stored
