Maintenance Server Move 20.10.2013

[Matt]

I've migrated the server to a different company. We now have a separate DB and Web server running the site (simply because I can and know how to set them up )

DNS has been moved over, and we are now on the new site.

I've also removed www from the URL, as the new SSL certificate I've purchased for the shop doesn't include www, so it's easier to remove it than have 2 SSL certificates.

You shouldn't notice any difference really though.

I'll still be doing a few changes / restarts over the new few days, but nothing major.

Any problems, please let me know in here.

 

[Matt]

I forgot to update the IP address for the FB app, so I've just done that now.

Thanks to @evocarlos for pointing it out

 

[vx-chris]

I wondered why it had logged me out and kept coming up with an error

 

[Matt]

I wondered why it had logged me out and kept coming up with an error

Yeah, that will be because of the removal of the www from the URL

 

[Matt]

How are people finding the site speed since I moved the site to the new servers?

 

[milo]

Same bud

 

[Matt]

Same bud

Good stuff, that's what I was hoping for. Saving 50% a month on hosting fees with the new set up.

 

[Matt]

I've just about finished messing with the set up now. Seems pretty quick and stable, but if you have any problems, please let me know.

 

[Matt]

I wasn't happy with the CPU performance of the setup I had built with DigitalOcean, so I've moved us again tonight. We are now with Linode, and in their London datacentre.

 

[PowR Remap]

What was wrong before Matt? I thought it was running quite sweet?

 

[Matt]

What was wrong before Matt? I thought it was running quite sweet?

I found with the DigitalOcean droplets, they were quite slow when it came to CPU intensive stuff, such as installing add-ons on the forum (you have to rebuild all the templates). It's my own fault for being spoilt with 14 cores from the last VPS, and the ability to burst when the node itself is quiet.

The new set up allows the same, with 2x CPU priority on 8 cores. There is also a lot more disc space on the new one, as the DO one only had 40GB, and we've got over 20GB of attachments on the site.

It's also faster network wise, we are back in London, and it's only 9 hops to the VPS, with better ping response times

[mworthington@artemis ~]$ ping z22se.co.uk (Linode)
PING z22se.co.uk (212.71.237.228) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from li666-228.members.linode.com (212.71.237.228): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=9.94 ms
64 bytes from li666-228.members.linode.com (212.71.237.228): icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=9.87 ms
64 bytes from li666-228.members.linode.com (212.71.237.228): icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=9.85 ms

--- z22se.co.uk ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 9.854/9.891/9.941/0.036 ms

[mworthington@artemis ~]$ ping vps.z22se.org.uk (DO)
PING vps.z22se.org.uk (146.185.156.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from vps.z22se.org.uk (146.185.156.8): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=21.6 ms
64 bytes from vps.z22se.org.uk (146.185.156.8): icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=21.5 ms
64 bytes from vps.z22se.org.uk (146.185.156.8): icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=21.5 ms

 

[PowR Remap]

Ah ok, fair enough

 

[Matt]

I've still got the other DO VPS though (the one running Cpanel)