Biobug.org

I shutdown my old virtual server today after migrating all my data…. Sorry if you got a short availability issue while DNS was updating around the internet.

I updated this server to a more recent version of my favorite Linux flavor: Ubuntu. The old system was running on a Slice that was built many years ago and ran just fine on Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS. It had a good run, but since I was destroying one of my other virtual machines, I figured it was time to migrate. Here’s how I did it.

1)Built a new slice at slicehost – my favorite virtual machine vendor. I installed the usual things like Apache2, php5, mysql, etc. Then I copied my Apache2 site configs over and added the missing modules to make them load properly. After that a large scp transfer copied my data and I performed a dump of my databases to flat text and imported them into my new improved MySQL server. My new slice ended up in a different data center on new hardware:

10  abovenet-peer.chcgil01.transitrail.net (137.164.130.174)  22.218 ms  22.107 ms  22.106 ms
11  xe-0-0-0.er1.ord7.us.above.net (64.125.26.245)  34.977 ms  27.394 ms  24.189 ms
12  64.124.65.218.allocated.above.net (64.124.65.218)  23.406 ms  23.524 ms  23.524 ms
13  core1-ed1-edge3.ord1.rackspace.net (173.203.0.101)  24.545 ms  24.808 ms  24.535 ms
14  173.203.0.189 (173.203.0.189)  24.642 ms  25.373 ms  24.576 ms
15  biobug.org (184.106.65.132)  24.138 ms  24.182 ms  23.993 ms

Looks like a Chicago data center (and behind a Juniper MX router at above.net) for the new system. My new VM is likely on a faster CPU and I upgraded the ram while I was at it. The price of the new data center was a new IP address, so I was forced to update DNS for my sites that I maintain here.