Well I am completely done with the move… finally. As it stands I had been pretty much dragging my feet getting the other services moved over and working. The domain I have my email sitting on is not even being used as a website anymore but I have been using it for email for about 3 years now so I have alot of stuff going there. Might as well keep it.
With a completed move comes an account closure. I was planning on possibly keeping my old Dreamhost account but I have opted to close it in order to save funds. On that same note anyone wanting to drop in a few dollars here or there is welcome to do so. I’m going to put up a chipin block on the site soon for anyone that wants to do so. It will be set for the monthly server costs and I will start a new one each month. At the present moment the server costs are $60.95. I’m not kidding. You can check out Linode’s site yourself. It is the VPS 1536 plan plus one additional IP.
In addition to that if anyone wants to host a website here just let me know what you want to do and I’ll consider it. Anyone that requests is expected to chipin to some degree since we will be sharing the server and provide their own domain name. No, you won’t be given admin rights on the server but I’ll be pretty loose on what you can do.
Well Dreamhost went ahead and did the server move I guess. It was going to happen eventually regardless. The impact isn’t too severe. For the most part it seems that php gracefully disabled the incompatible extensions. I will have to recompile all of them for the new architecture. Read more…
Hrmph! I had to do some changes to the https configuration to make it show properly in my hosting provider’s web panel. So https is going through a few cycles before it works again on both the main site (this one) and my subversion repository. The changes shouldn’t cause any downtime though since the ip isn’t changing this time. Actually there really wasn’t any downtime when I did add it.
I also made some changes to a cygwin mirror on my sister domain that should make it so that it won’t have issues with 404′s in the setup installer. I’ve never personally gotten any but I know there have been some so this should eliminate all the rest. Of course the ones for favicon.* and robots.txt will still happen since they don’t exist on that mirror.
I am turning on the https stuff. Initially it will be down due to the static ip address that will need to be configured. Afterwards you will have a self-signed certificate until the host can get the new certificate installed. You probably won’t see it unless you are logging in.
I am considering on having my websites moved to a new cluster within Dreamhost. I recently sent them an email concerning some high load on the server which caused some small disruptions on the speed that my site loaded. The initial email didn’t really mention that high of a load. It was reading something around 60 at the time. Later on I found it to be over 300. Now it could of been a really long compile task that someone wasn’t watching and it caused the server load to go up (it happens) or it could of been some rouge processes that the user managed to noticed and kill off. Either way it shows right around 6-10 at the moment which is good. That is also why the site is responsive right now.
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