Was his name Mr Agdgdgwengo? He's a dear friend of mine.

That, preferrably. Means we can give MySQL >512MB RAM if neccesary. I'm hoping we can use nginx or lighttpd instead of Apache, or nginx/lighttpd proxying PHP requests through to Apache.

Peeps, has anyone got any of the donations yet? How are we doing this? We should probably prod milko and have him check the Amazon kitty too.

 

Seriously, I'm tempted to get Kenny in here to organise it all.

I thought you were organising it all :?

I am. Just not in this universe :-&

Sorry all for slight delay in this.

Donations still not yet required, because Linode charge the same rate monthly/annually, so we'll start with just one month to make certain that we're happy with them, the €150 will take us further forward, and so then after that I'll start collecting donations.

For future reference, and because I mentioned checking it before, we're currently using 5.4GB disk space, and our monthly data transfer is between 3..4GB (with a 10GB peak in either March or April).

On those fronts, we're fine with the base Linode 512 plan, but since we're currently using ~790MB of RAM (and that's with only 12 active users), that definitely points us at the Linode 1024 plan.
(It looks like you can upgrade more-or-less on-the-fly, so if 1GB is not enough we can increase it, or jump up to the next plan, as appropriate).


Ok, so, Matt can you do your usual precautionary backing up, before I go reply to EuroVPS to get the credit refunded.

Also, should I go ahead and order the Linode 1024 now, so you have some time to setup/fiddle/test this weekend, and then plan for the actual migration next weekend, or something else?

Done.



If you can afford to do that, some time to set things up and test would be useful, yes. If you could email me (matt@teh) the credentials when you have the Linode account created, I'll get everything going.

Ok, thanks, will go do that in a sec, and email you once it's up.

 

I'll signup initially for the Linode 512 plan though - upgrading is basically just a reboot (all data+config kept), and can be done at any time (pro-rated) so it'll be slightly cheaper.

When did we last do a payment? I'm trying to work out where the Amazon affiliate fund is at.

So? Does it work?

Was that the smoothest migration we've done?

It helped having the new server available to play with for a few days before switching over.

I am no expert on those things, but given that hunger for resources wouldn't it be cheaper in the long run to buy and operate one's own server?

I'm not sure of the current price of rack servers, but my impression is that co-location (renting rack-space at hosting facilities) in general is going out of fashion these days, because it's simply easier, cheaper, and less hassle for hosts to provide virtual servers, and similarly users don't have to worry about upgrading, hardware failure, and so on.
(And that's not even getting into all the issues surrounding visiting the data centres to install hardware.)

At the moment, we are actually on the lowest Linode 512 plan, and it seems to be coping absolutely fine.

The place is not exactly at its busiest presently - and being on a crappy 3G connection it's hard to tell - but it's certainly not worse than before the move, and server load is currently considered 'idle', so whilst it's still early days, I don't think we have anything to worry about.

I think it's quicker if anything this new host.

Good. :)

Didn't want to bias any opinions by saying it, but yes - it certainly was whilst setting things up - I was on broadband loading both side-by-side and this one was noticably quicker.

Some of that is simply having it London/UK based, rather than Netherlands - we gain ~10ms just from it being closer.

Oh yeah, and we're using a different web server - nginx instead of Apache httpd - not sure how much difference that makes generally, but it's more lightweight and copes with load better.

It does seem nice and nippy so far doesn't it! :-)

Yes.

 

*ZOOM*

Do I spy another van race coming on?