15 May 09 Server Upgrade, A Slight Return
I started having some pretty serious doubts that I could bring the current server down, get it re-imaged, and then put everything back within a few hours. A major goof or unforseen gotcha could bring the site down for days, which wouldn’t be good for my stress level. So after talking to my old PHP pal Evaders, I decided to follow his recent course of action and rent a second server and then migrate to it at my leisure. This has the added bonus that the latest entry level server packages from my host feature slightly faster processors and double the RAM compared to what I have now. And since I apparently can click through my own affiliate link, it really shouldn’t cost a whole lot. I’ll just be renting two servers for a short period. Once I get everything setup and moved over I can turn off the old one.
So last night I placed an order for another server, and within hours it was ready to go. The first step will be to re-image it from CentOS 5 to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Here we go! This should be very interesting.
