2020 mercury move

Shopping for a host

• [-] Nothing seems to work on their site? 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 - for 100G it is $45/month
  • re: ovh, I think if you pay a year at a time it drops to $3 or $4/mo, something like that.
• kimsufi
  • https://www.kimsufi.com/ca/en/vps-ssd.xml SSD is $20/mo for 80G
  • KS-1 in Montreal https://www.kimsufi.com/ca/en/servers.xml This would be perfect "KS-1" SERVERS service is 500G for $5.99/mo but they're "currently being replenished". 2020-03-03 emailed them to ask when it would be available
  • [ ] KS-3 in France: https://www.kimsufi.com/ca/en/servers.xml $11.99 / mo
• [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.
• [ ] websavers.ca - is in Canada. Very quick response on tickets. 200G SSD is $78 / mo (and not much less quarterly.).
• Radek says: I use mydevil.net, they take ~$4/month for a BSD-based hosting. --- and it's all in Polish.
• 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
• [ ] https://www.hostinger.com/cloud-hosting -- doesn't appear to be actual VPS, they offer a certain number of websites and email addresses?

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