2020 mercury move

Shopping for a host

• https://bignodes.com/budget-high-storage-vps/ $20/year 125G
• SteveBromwich rcommends chunkhost - 60 $USD / year
• https://www.hostwinds.com/vps/unmanaged-linux.php?gclid=CjwKCAiAnfjyBRBxEiwA-EECLOBy-zyPyCwoVQljDtUWkuGkDfRd_9quzGW3N1s1JTeAmGp6u_r-sBoC8rMQAvD_BwE 100G $26.09/mo
• IanCampbell recommends
  • OVH in France. OVH is their grown-up stuff (larger dedicated server rentals, vpses), soyoustart and kimsufi are discount tiers. https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/vps/vps-cloud.xml 100G $32.89
  • re: ovh, I think if you pay a year at a time it drops to $3 or $4/mo, something like that.
  • kimsufi - montreal
• [x] Canadian Web Hosting : https://www.canadianwebhosting.com/vps VPS1 package $5 /mo, Memory 512 MB. 1 Core, Storage: 20 GB, 1 ip address, 1 TB bandwidth/mo. Extra storage costs $5 per 10G.
• Radek says: I use mydevil.net, they take ~$4/month for a BSD-based hosting.
• RobertMcKay says: i have a vps at ovh in quebec you can evade tax by giving them an alberta address it's only $4.71/mo tho anyway heh i do think some of online.net's stuff is better value than ovh if you're looking for something more capable they don't have any canada dc though

2020-02-28

got the new server, IP 107.6.27.87

[x] install & configure fail2ban, sudo, rsync, apache2, bind9, make

[x] begin rsync

[x] install rrdtool, librrds-perl

[ ] cpan install Log::Log4perl, YAML, RRD::Simple

[ ] install libgd-dv , cpan install GD

[x] ask Greg Estabrooks if he'll do postfix & dovecot

[ ] postfix / dovecot

[ ] ask Greg for other hardening stuff

[ ] copy /etc/apache2/

[ ] Drupal7

[ ] Drupal8

follow https://tecadmin.net/install-lamp-stack-debian-9-stretch/:

Future: [x] Notify our secondary to being updating from new [x] Update glue record for bonmot.ca

Move Drupal Site

1. somehow lock the site so no changes can be made
2. mysqldump the database to e.g. wayves.ca.sql
3. scp wayves.sql over to mercnew:/tmp/wayves.ca.tar
4. scp both files to mercnew:/tmp
5. unpack the tarfile into /usr/share/drupal7/sites/
6. mysql < /tmp/wayves.ca.sql
7. change the dns and wait for the traffic to move over