Editing 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. 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 : Actually get a kimsufi / OVH KS-1 server in the RBX-5 data centre in Roubaix, France ==Shopping== ; https://www.scaleway.com/fr/dedibox/tarifs/ : 7.99€/mo ; 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 : 7.99€/month 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" ; hetzner : 18.92€ / mo for 160G ; 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? ==kimsufi.com trial== ; 2020-03-08 : use kimsufi-notifier.com to tell us when a server was available : got IP 5.39.78.158, KS-1 Server - Atom D425 - 2GB DDR3 1066 MHz - 500GB SATA, : [x] apt install build-essential fail2ban sudo rsync bind9 make : [x] copy over config files for sudo, rsync, bind9 : [x] Copy over /etc/shadow & passwd : [x] timedatectl set-timezone : [x] test login & sudo : [x] disable root login in, edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config : [x] put the hostname and domain in /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts : follow https://tecadmin.net/install-lamp-stack-debian-9-stretch/ : apt install libhtml-parser-perl libcgi-fast-perl # for Perl CGI : Enable CGI with a2enmod cgid : [x] apt install rrdtool, librrds-perl : [x] cpan install CPAN YAML Log::Log4perl CGI : [x] apt-get install libdbd-mysql-perl default-libmysqlclient-dev : [x] cpan install DBD::mysql : [x] RRD. should be "cpan install RRD::Simple " but the tests are out of date and I had to download it and manually install using the instructions in INSTALL : [x] begin rsync ; [x] copy /var/named/* : [x] GD: install libgd-dev , cpan install GD... failed. Had to apt-get and install the compiler for it. : [x] ask Greg Estabrooks if he'll do postfix & dovecot : [x] postfix / dovecot : [x] it needed some kind of cert installed that greg did : [ ] ask Greg for other hardening stuff : [x] copy /etc/apache2/ : [x] Drupal7 - tarr'd and copied all of /etc/drupal/7 over : [x] Drupal8 - tarr'd and copied all of /etc/drupal/8 over : [s] cpan install DateTime - I don't remember what uses it : [x] apt install lm-sensors to look at CPU temperature. use command "sensors" : [x] apt install graphicsmagick : [ ] Instructions in [[https]] Future: [ ] Notify our secondary to begin updating from new [ ] Update glue record for bonmot.ca ==Move Drupal Site== # lock the site so no changes can be made # use /etc/drupal/backup.sh to back up everything # see [[Drupal]] to create the database and add the database user # gzip -c -d (the sql file) | mysql -uroot -p (database) # unlock # double check that Backup Restore is working on each site # change the dns and wait for the traffic to move over

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