I took a few hours this evening and migrated my blog (along with the discussion forums) over to a new Virtual Private Server (VPS) at RIMUHosting out of their Dallas, Texas data center.
It wasn’t too difficult but it did take some fiddling with the Apache configuration to create the various virtual hosts and then importing the various databases and re-creating the various database user accounts.
I’m really pleased with the immediate performance increase.
Please leave a comment here if you have any issues and/or problems.
Feel free to let me know how the site performs for you!
Thanks as always for your support!
Cheers!
Update: May 8, 2010 at 11:15PM
I’ve just noticed my first big problem.. seems the RSS/XML feed is not working because of a whitespace issue. It may take some time before I can get this one fixed… might need to roll back to the old server for a while.
Works great for me!
Thanks for the site and your continuing efforts to improve it. Much appreciated.
I’m really happy with the switch… I did have to spend a little time brushing up on my knowledge of Apache and MySQL but the speed increase and flexibility is well worth the configuration hassles. I would definitely advise those folks that aren’t Linux/Windows savvy to stay with a shared hosting plan and let the hosting provider take care of the underlying operating system.
I manged to upgrade the default CentOS 5.3 installation tonight to CentOS 5.5. The only caveat is that you can’t upgrade the kernel, you need to run a XEN kernel so I’m currently running 2.6.30.5-xenU. Now I just need to spend a little time tweaking the logrotate configuration and getting some decent firewall rules setup to block the thousands of the SSH login requests.
Cheers!