I did it.
I flipped the switch.
There’s no going back now.
Well OK, technically there is, but I won’t.
I spent much of yesterday getting my Slicehost slice setup, and today I went live with it. Slicehost isn’t your usual web host; they build you a custom, bare-bones server image that you can then configure to your heart’s content using SSH. Being a Linux newbie, it’s been a lot of fun working my way through it; from updating the essentials to getting Apache, PHP, MySQL and XCache running. Postfix has been a particular painto get working, but I think I’m almost there.
I’m super impressed with the performance I’m seeing right now, but I’m nowhere near the load I’ll be once I get my guild’s site running on here. Still, I’m very optimistic that we’ll be happier with this setup than our previous host. I do regret not getting this setup with a bit more memory from the get-go, but I’ll see where I’m at when I start moving more sites over. I could always setup another slice and distribute the domains across them.
FYI, I still need to make a few tweaks and ensure email is getting moved about properly, so I apologize in advance if you get an email bouncing from my @evansims.com addresses for the next day or two. You can reach me at evan sims [at] gmail [dot] com in the meantime. Thanks!
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