{"id":408,"date":"2024-06-07T18:06:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T18:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deoss.net\/info\/?p=408"},"modified":"2024-06-08T17:51:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T17:51:59","slug":"server-upgrade-our-biggest-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deoss.net\/info\/2024\/06\/07\/server-upgrade-our-biggest-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Server upgrade (our biggest ever!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today saw the completion of our biggest ever server upgrade. This will allow us a lot ore room for expansion, along with faster, smoother sites, and easier day-to-day management. However we are sad to be saying goodbye to our trusty upstream provider Bytemark. We had our first Bytemark server back in 2006 and as a company Bytemark has served us well, ever since. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Bytemark was taken over by Iomark, and is no longer actively supporting the “dedicated host” type machine that we have enjoyed for all these years. However, thanks to a very helpful chap at Iomark, I have been able to secure a deal from one of it’s Iomark “sister companies”, Rapidswitch. This deal allowed us a smooth transition period to a new dedicated Debian Linux host. It enabled us to move all sites and services across from the old Bytemark machine to a new one hosted by our new upstream provider, one-by one, testing each one before moving the next one. In addition to allowing a relatively smooth and orderly transition, this deal has also provided us with a dedicated machine with significantly higher specification than the old one. <\/p>\n

Most sites moved across very smoothly with only a few minutes downtime whilst the planet’s DNS system caught up with the various nameserver changes. However, some sites suffered slightly longer delays due to an issue that to be frank, I had not really made sufficient allowance for. The new server runs latest Debian stable c\/w latest PHP. The old server was running Debian “old stable” c\/w PHP 7.4. This meant that some older WordPress plugins had stopped working because they have not been updated to PHP 8.*. So it was necessary to remove these plugins, and where necessary, find more modern replacements. Anyway, after a little scratching around, all the issues arsing from this nave now been resolved.<\/p>\n

The performance of this new Rapidswitch server is quite impressive. And its 64GB RAM should ensure we don’t have any “out of memory” errors any time soon. So all-in-all, despite the upheaval I would say this has been a good move for us, and will certainly leave us better placed to deal with the technological challenges the future will inevitably bring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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