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Title: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Rad on Feb 18th, 2008 at 12:36pm
Heads up. I'm preparing to move the site .. to a WiredTree ("fully managed") VPS .. in Chicago. See this blog entry for more:
http://mt4.radified.com/2008/02/think-i-mightve-found-our-new-web-host-wiredtr.html Any posts (including this one) made between now and when the new server is up are likely to be lost. So copy-n-save your posts in a local text file. I'm backing-up the site now. Soon as that's verified, I'll place the order for the new VPS, and begin uploading the site .. extract the archive and begin configuring our new puppy. Fun city! The site at the new server should be notceably more responsive. Wish me luck. This will be our first foray into the world of VPS. You can learn more about our new server here: http://www.wiredtree.com/managedvps/index.php http://www.wiredtree.com/managedvps/features.php http://www.wiredtree.com/ournetwork/ http://www.wiredtree.com/ournetwork/datacenter.php This is the nicest set-up I could find .. after considerable research. It has it everything I was looking for .. fully managed, cPanel / WHM, PHP5, MySQL 5 ... more memory (256 MB), bandwidth (300 gigs), and disk space (30 gigs) than we'll ever use. I am pinging ~80ms to the WireTree site: Quote:
Funny how they list node #6 as "Waterbury, Connecticut" (I been there. Not a fun place.) .. with a ping result as 16ms. Uh, 16ms to the East coast .. I don't think so. Must be mis-labeled. |
Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Ghost4me on Feb 18th, 2008 at 1:35pm
Well, not quite as good as my 13ms tin-can line to LP, but feels fine:
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Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Rad on Feb 18th, 2008 at 1:39pm
Hmmm. Only 13 hops for you. 20 for me.
Folks around the rest of the country should like the closer server, being centrally located. Back-up complete. Downloading now. |
Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Ghost4me on Feb 18th, 2008 at 2:02pm Rad wrote on Feb 18th, 2008 at 1:39pm:
I think the oc.cox... tracert id stands for orange county, so the routing should be similar. Personally I don't think the problems before with LP were network related, but were/are server related (just my guess). |
Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Rad on Feb 18th, 2008 at 2:20pm
I placed the order. Waiting for verification phone call.
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Even found a coupon online (Google rocks) for 128 MB free RAM upgrade + 10% off: FREERAM+10PERCENTOFF ($44/month) http://www.retailmenot.com/view/wiredtree.com Quote:
Here we go. |
Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by NightOwl on Feb 18th, 2008 at 2:40pm
Rad
*Change is good, change is good, change is good......! Hope all goes well--and see you on the *other side*! |
Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Rad on Feb 18th, 2008 at 2:44pm
Well *this* change should be good (growth).
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I feel like I did good. Lots of research. Good deal. Everything I wanted (plus an extra 128MB RAM). |
Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Rad on Feb 18th, 2008 at 3:05pm
Okay, they called to confirm the order. Said current que time is "1-2 hours." I'm all ready to change the domain name servers soon as I get their welcoming email .. already logged into my registrar's site. Currently making another back-up of the site.
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Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by MrMagoo on Feb 18th, 2008 at 3:09pm Rad wrote on Feb 18th, 2008 at 12:36pm:
The hop called Waterbury is between Irvin and Los Angles, so I think that this particular Waterbury is in CA, not the East Coast. |
Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Rad on Feb 18th, 2008 at 3:13pm
The line on the map-view traces out the Connecticut. Looks weird. More email:
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Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by NightOwl on Feb 18th, 2008 at 3:32pm
Rad
Well, didn't take too long this time--Radified has overwhelmed your new ISP and forced them to add capacity already!!!! Hmmmm....great start to a *long*, friendly working relationship ;) !!! |
Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Rad on Feb 18th, 2008 at 4:13pm
Thanks for making me laugh. I needed that. Here's an answer to my question:
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Being first on a new node should help with responsiveness, I would guess. |
Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Rad on Feb 18th, 2008 at 8:15pm
Quick note to say it's 6:15 here and I still haven't heard anything from them.
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Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Rad on Feb 18th, 2008 at 10:51pm
9PM here on the Left coast. I have account log-in info.
As they say in the 'hood, "We up outta here." VPS here we come. |
Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Rad on Feb 19th, 2008 at 8:46am
It got to be midnight last night and my eyeballs fellout from reading all the "New account set-up" PDFs they sent me .. so I feel asleep. Back at it now. Here's interesting email I received:
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The first problem I had was that the password I created for the account was "not secure enough". So the software would not create a default cPanel account for me in WHM (web host manager). The first thing they have you do upon account log-in is to create a new password. A slider/bar turns from red to yellow to green as you add letters, capital letter, numbers and special charaters such as #$%@! In the Welcoming email, I was surprised to see this paragraph .. listed under heading "Informational Emails from your Server" Quote:
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Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by NightOwl on Feb 19th, 2008 at 9:19am
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Just an observation....over the years I have seen an uptick in *strangeness* and *weird* events (people create *events*) with the full moon cycle!!!! When you read the studies--science says *no relationship*, but.... And, I've always said that maybe it's just me--I'm the only one effected by the moon, and I'm the one creating the *weirdness* in my head, while everyone else is acting *normal* ;) ! But, seems like I see a lot more *bad* driving habits just before a full moon--don't know if I'm just noticing more--or not! Well, I'm sure you're not effected by the *moon*--but, your last upgrade to the forum was just before a *full moon*--and we temporarily lost half the forum!!!! Tomorrow is another *full moon*--watch your backside :D !!!! |
Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Rad on Feb 19th, 2008 at 10:31am
Thanks. Hadn't noticed the lunar cycles. Very perceptive of you. I *do* get energetic with the full moons, so I'm not surprised that these upgrades coincide.
I feel good about the move. Taking it slow. Reading everything carefully. No hurry, since the Lunarpages server is going nowhere. WT sppt is holding my hand, answering my emails (questions) within minutes. Impressive support. He even has a sense of humor. I'm creating another site back-up now. But maybe I should go get some coffee first. [smiley=smiley.gif] |
Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Rad on Feb 20th, 2008 at 12:13am
Uh, here we are. Move complete. Think I fixed all the problems. (A few of the subdomains weren't working.)
But all the databases, email accounts, and most of the subdomains transferred over from the old site .. no problem. I thought I would have to reconfigure everything by hand at the new site .. but no, it all worke fine. Pretty cool. Any problems? |
Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by NightOwl on Feb 20th, 2008 at 1:02am
Rad
Congrats on the upgrade! Lost at least one new member from this morning--BLong I think. Lost his thread and several response posts + lost a post from Brian in response to one of my posts. But, website response seems to be very good compared to Lunarpages. Speaking of which--need to remove them from your *fader* announcements in top left corner, and correct the *downtown LA* location--and the Lunarpages at the bottom of the forum pages! Looks like not everyone is being directed to the new server yet--suspect some are still chatting away at the old site!!! They'll probably show up by tomorrow! |
Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Rad on Feb 20th, 2008 at 1:19am
Okay, I changed the news fader.
Tired. I get the bug early tomorrow morn, so I wanted to get this done by tonight. I'll take care of the rest after I'm done having the bug. While reviewing things today, I noticed your nightowl email acct contains ~ 1 MB in it. Do you not use it? If you are getting too much spam, we can change it to NightOwl2, or something like that. That's what I do when I start getting lots of spam at a particular addy. 1 MB is not a problem (we have 30 gigs), just asking. |
Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Rad on Feb 20th, 2008 at 2:20am
Just received this at midnight (from Lunarpages):
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It will be funny if they continue to send me emails claiming the site is using excessive resources .. when no one is using the site at their server any longer. |
Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Sunday_Afternoon on Feb 20th, 2008 at 11:16am Rad wrote on Feb 20th, 2008 at 2:20am:
Indeed - any idea on the load numbers on the new host? Sun pm |
Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by MrMagoo on Feb 20th, 2008 at 1:21pm
Should be easy to get. From the command line:
'top' will show you processor utilization and the most active processes 'ps aux' will show you a list of all the processes and their memory and processor usage at that instant 'uptime' will show you the load averages 'free -m' will show you the amount of used/available memory Some of them may look funny due to it being a virtual server, but you'll get a good idea of the server health. |
Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Rad on Feb 20th, 2008 at 3:03pm
At new host. I can get these myself .. via WHM (WebHost Manager):
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The server is dual-CPU, far as I can tell. "Intel Dual Xeon Clovertown (8 CPUS)" I have been assigned (they tell me) 384-MB RAM. http://www.wiredtree.com/managedvps/ Quote:
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Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by LoTGoD on Feb 20th, 2008 at 3:29pm
Rad,
Site access from Ohio is *MUCH* faster than before! Just wanted to thank you for the quicker access! Looks like you got things under control... |
Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Rad.Test on Feb 20th, 2008 at 7:32pm
Thanks for the note. I was wondering if folks around the country could notice a difference.
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Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Brian on Feb 20th, 2008 at 7:55pm
Faster here too.
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Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Ghost4me on Feb 20th, 2008 at 8:58pm
From Southern California, it is as fast as before, and more importantly, it is *consistently* fast. I haven't seen any pauses, as I used to with LP.
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Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by El_Pescador on Feb 20th, 2008 at 9:01pm
Site access from Bayou Country is *NOTICEABLY* faster than before - albeit not *RADICALLY* faster.
El Pescador |
Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Sunday_Afternoon on Feb 20th, 2008 at 10:59pm
And from Silicon Valley:
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Title: Re: Heads up - Preparing to move the site Post by Rad on Feb 21st, 2008 at 4:19pm
Received from LP today:
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So now that nobody is going there, our usage is finally okay again. |
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