On a website I’ve developed, The Woodburner, I had to change it over to a new server this past weekend. I was on a VPS, which was getting kind of expensive. The problem was that it froze up a lot more than I thought it should.
So, I got a small dedicated server from Go Daddy. I’ve used them for many years for domain control, but had a bad experience with their VPS (maybe it’s just that VPS aren’t as good as they should be?). When I seen the price on their small dedicated server, I decided to give it a go.
It took me about a week, on and off, to set it up the way I wanted and test it out. Then last Friday I copied all Giga Bytes of data of the VPS and copied the 100 MBytes of data from the MySQL server. On Saturday morning I set up the dedicated server with the domain name, registered it as a DNS, and set up the name servers pointing to it. Then copied all the Giga Bytes of data on the dedicated server. I also had to create the appropriate database, and upload the sql data. After a few hours, the DNS was re-routed and the dedicated server with my website went live.
Everything worked except the gallery. Once I went into the admin area to check that out, I realized the gallery was based upon a server path to the image files. After changing that path (which is much shorter now), the gallery worked also. I didn’t have to change anything else!! It was amazing. I’ve never moved a website that easily before.
I also use the e107 CMS for that website (see previous post). I think the e107 is the best software for creating a complex cms – best I’ve ever used (or that I’ve tested, and i’ve tested many, many CMS, including the most popular ones, which are terrible if you are very particular about what the site needs to do!!)
So, once again, e107 CMS, along with Gallery2, convinced me that I made the right decision when I changed to them late last year (that’s another story altogether – maybe I already told it).
I’ve put a plugin on the website that calculates server load (told you e107 is good), and so far it looks good. I’ll give it another week before I clean up and turn off the old VPS. This small dedicated server by Go Daddy is looking good.
You all have a good day!
Ralph
