Editing revision 23 of 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== ; 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 : got the new server, IP 5.39.78.158 : [x] apt install 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/: : [x] apt install rrdtool, librrds-perl : [x] cpan install CPAN YAML Log::Log4perl RRD::Simple : [x] begin rsync ; [x] copy /var/named/* : [x] install libgd-dev , 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 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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