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 Post subject: LDDb.com will soon upgrade its hardware server!
PostPosted: 17 Jul 2013, 09:26 
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After 1.5 years of good service the R210 I'm leasing for 47.83 € MRC (dual core, 4GB RAM, 1TB RAID) will be retired and replaced with the R210 II for 35.87 € MRC (quad core, 8GB RAM, 1TB RAID).

The transition should (hopefully) be smooth with minimum downtime over one week-end.

As always, feel free to make a small contribution to help pay for the monthly hosting costs if you think LDDb.com was useful to you in any way.

Heavy week-end ahead!

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PostPosted: 17 Jul 2013, 12:11 
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Good day Sir,

Thank you for letting us all know.

Are you able to let us all know when this upgrade will take place?

Thank you in advance of your reply Friend

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PostPosted: 17 Jul 2013, 13:10 
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Are you able to let us all know when this upgrade will take place?


Either this week-end or the next one.

No choice: the current server will be physically unplugged on August 1st. :lol:

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PostPosted: 17 Jul 2013, 14:32 
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Good afternoon Julien,

Thank you for your reply sir'

Just one more question of concern,
Do some of the members help with cost's for this website?

To be honest I think many people such as myself wouldn't realize how much it cost's to run a website.

Could I be so bold as to ask how much this is, and that way more people would be aware, and hopefully would be willing to help you.

I must be honest and mention that, funds have been very tight for myself personally and so this limits what I can give to show thanks in the way of a donation.

Thank you and I hope your not offended by my request good sir

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At today's rate, the new server will cost ~31 GBP (~ 47 USD) versus the current ~41 GBP (~63 USD) monthly.

Yearly costs will decrease by 25% from $760 to $560.

http://www.lddb.com/hosting.php

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PostPosted: 17 Jul 2013, 14:55 
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At today's rate, the new server will cost ~31 GBP (~ 47 USD) versus the current ~41 GBP (~63 USD) monthly.

Yearly costs will decrease by 25% from $760 to $560.

http://www.lddb.com/hosting.php

Julien



Good afternoon Julien,

Thank you.

When I am in a position to give say £5 a month how would you like myself to send the funds?
Could you please send this in a pm and then I will keep you informed of when I can begin.
I shall look at stopping my Direct Debit for the HOME CINEMA CHOICE magazine in the near future, so giving this to yourself would be a straight swap.

Thank you in anticipation of your reply good sir.

Regards and thank you for this site Julien :D
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benmbe wrote:
Could you please send this in a pm and then I will keep you informed of when I can begin.


It's on every LDDb page :-) => http://www.lddb.com/donate.php

This week-end I moved everything but LDDb.com to the new server. This will be my next week-end task.

Learned a few things on the way: /javascript is now reserved on Debian systems, the Apache2 configuration is much more picky on Option FollowSymLinks and AllowOverride All, tumgreyspf actually breaks communication with GMail servers...

But it's fun if you're a geek :thumbup:

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good to hear that you will save money on the transfer of the new server.
good luck with the rest of the move








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 Post subject: Re: LDDb.com will soon upgrade its hardware server!
PostPosted: 28 Jul 2013, 17:02 
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LDDb migration has started! I'm actually posting this from the new server forum (the new IP for forum.lddb.com already propagated) but I can't test ldd.com yet as it is still pointing to the old address with a "under maintenance" notice.

Everything should be back to normal within the next 2 hours or so.

I took the migration opportunity to tune the backup, make spamassassin learn spam from ham more dynamically, add a private family cloud for sharing things securely, remove from syslog unneeded outputs, and I must at some point leave GnuTLS towards OpenSSL and add a certificat to LDDb.com so that passwords are not sent in the clear.

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PostPosted: 28 Jul 2013, 18:13 
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Migration completed! :thumbup:

Do no hesitate to report bugs, weird behaviors or things that worked differently before. The software is the same but the underlying applications (Apache2, PHP, MySQL) were all upgraded to more recent versions and might bring some growing pain on the way.

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PostPosted: 28 Jul 2013, 18:24 
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Seems like smooth sailing so far. :thumbup:
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PostPosted: 27 Sep 2013, 12:31 
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Bad news: LDDb.com will soon upgrade its hardware server - AGAIN

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