Comments on: Some Quick Lessons I Learned While Moving Servers

By: John

John — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:00:41 +0000

I’ve been on (dv) for about 6 months now and just upgraded to the $100/mo package. I’ve got 5 sites on it and it’s worked great. Tech support is amazing too.

By: Mark Hayes

Mark Hayes — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:01:50 +0000

I’m currently using MediaTemple’s (gs) plan, but am thinking about making the move to (dv). I’d like to know if you’ve experienced any major issues with (dv) hosting since you’ve made the switch. Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks!

By: Jessi Hance

Jessi Hance — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:01:13 +0000

I'm sorry for the suckage. I wonder if it sucked partly *because* the nameserver wasn't changing. I work for a small ISP/hosting company and while I don't know the details, I know that when we migrate someone from one of our servers to another (to upgrade their service, usually) one of our engineers copies all the files, email, etc. to the new server, checks everything, and makes sure it's all in place before we do a DNS change with the registrar. It's usually pretty seamless that way.

By the way, I'm curious – what don't you like about Plesk? I've never really used anything else. Is there something better out there?

By: Jessi Hance

Jessi Hance — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:43:44 +0000

Thanks for the explanation. I hope at least you don't have to move again for a good long while.

A custom-made back-end sounds very wonderful and luxurious! Wow, I'd like to learn how to build one for my ISP. That would be a cool project.

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:53:45 +0000

It was a manual migration, so I don't know what they were waiting for if they did wait to flip the switch. The thing was, it was only an INTERNAL change, since the DNS servers actually stayed the same (both pointed at media temple). The server was ultimately at a different IP so something had to change, but only internal to media temple not worldwide.

Plesk hasn't been so bad actually, it's just a lot rougher around the edges than back on grid-service. Media Temple has their own custom back-end for grid-service customers that is really really slick and easy to use.

By: Gustavo Bordoni

Gustavo Bordoni — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:07:42 +0000

That is the problem to everyone who uses Wordpress, alot of CPU usage…

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:19:49 +0000

No I very much doubt that Media Temple would shut off your site. They do warn you if you go over your CPU limit though. That was the primary reason for my upgrade, was because it was the third month in a row I exceeded CPU usage and paid overage charges.

By: Gustavo Bordoni

Gustavo Bordoni — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:42:51 +0000

There is one thing that I wanna know about Gride Service (gs), they do like in HostGator and others?

If your site use more then 25% of the CPU, they simply turn your site/blog off.

By: Baz L

Baz L — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:23:08 +0000

The real sucky part is changing the absolute references that a lot of Wordpress stuff uses. I mean references such as: /home/user/www/…etc

I got really burned by WP-SuperCache, since it uses that symlink of advanced-cache.php. Also, there are a ton of references in the exported database.

I actually ended up writing a lil’ bash script to export everything (files and databases), dump in a subdomain I hadn’t moved yet (for easy downloading).

Then on the other end an import script that downloaded the exports onto the new server, extracted files to proper locations, extracted the database files, did a search and replace of the old paths with new paths, then restored the databases.

It really came it handy. I should blog about it one day, but I’m lazy. :)

By: Paul Davis

Paul Davis — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:57:25 +0000

I just signed up for a (gs) a few weeks ago. It’s good to know that CSS-Tricks was running from it, even with it’s high traffic/ :)