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2020 mercury move

Move Options

Pay Up
just give Giles $50/mo. Adv: no work required, Canadian, local
canadianwebhosting more disk
Pay them probably $5 + 6 x $5/10G = $35. Adv: Canadian. Disadv: really not much less than Giles.
kimsufi
Adv: could get exactly what we want for $6/mo. Disadv: no idea when we might get it. IanCampbell recommends. RobertMcKay says: i have a vps at ovh in quebec France based. OVH is their grown-up stuff (larger dedicated server rentals, vpses), soyoustart and kimsufi are discount tiers. : 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

Shopping

bignodes.com
Nothing seems to work on their site? https://bignodes.com/budget-high-storage-vps/ $20/year 125G
chunkhost
SteveBromwich rcommends - 60 $USD / year. But with minimal storage
hostwinds.com
https://www.hostwinds.com/vps/unmanaged-linux.php?gclid=CjwKCAiAnfjyBRBxEiwA-EECLOBy-zyPyCwoVQljDtUWkuGkDfRd_9quzGW3N1s1JTeAmGp6u_r-sBoC8rMQAvD_BwE 100G $26.09/mo
[ ] KS-3 in France: https://www.kimsufi.com/ca/en/servers.xml $11.99 / mo; Canad
websavers.ca
is in Canada. Very quick response on tickets. 200G SSD is $78 / mo (and not much less quarterly.).
mydevil.net
Radek uses. they take ~$4/month for a BSD-based hosting. --- and it's all in Polish.
online.net
RobertMcKay says: "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"
hostinger.com
https://www.hostinger.com/cloud-hosting -- doesn't appear to be actual VPS, they offer a certain number of websites and email addresses?

canadianwebhosting.com trial

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