Editing revision 16 of 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=== # somehow lock the site so no changes can be made # mysqldump the database to e.g. wayves.ca.sql # scp wayves.sql over to mercnew:/tmp/wayves.ca.tar # scp both files to mercnew:/tmp # unpack the tarfile into /usr/share/drupal7/sites/ # mysql < /tmp/wayves.ca.sql # change the dns and wait for the traffic to move over

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