Migratory changes…
Over the last 12 months I’ve become increasingly disenchanted with the value for money of the colo server I rent (xev.arricc.net) from Serversure. When I first took out the contract, it was the best there was, and as my bandwidth at the time was very low, 5Gb/month was an acceptable limitation.
Since then my bandwidth has gone over that fairly regularly. So I went shopping about. After a lot of time spend trying to convert € and $ into £ I eventually settled on the basic root server offering from 1&1 Internet (wist.arricc.net). The benefits? unlimited bandwidth and serial console access to the server – not to mention the spec is about double the memory and Mhz of Xev!
I’ve made a number of changes to the setup of Wist over Xev, with (hopefully!) no loss of services. Not least is the implementation of virtual servers. This has allowed me to let users run PHP scripts in a sandbox which won’t affect my own projects.
I’m going to attempt to detail the setup in stages as there are a number of things to cover – vservers, webservers & virtual hosting, database server, host access(ssh, ftp, etc.) – so hopefully I’ll be able to break them down in meaningful stages!
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