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 Post subject: Changing hosting providers
PostPosted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 11:14 am 
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I'm switching hosting providers.

I'm still in the getting stuff setup phase. Once I'm ready to make the DNS changes I'll post the new ip here and put the old server in read-only.


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 Post subject: Re: Changing hosting providers
PostPosted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 1:22 pm 
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Is there any particular reason for the switch? Curious.

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 Post subject: Re: Changing hosting providers
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As the domain renewals come up I'll be switching away from GoDaddy because of their SOPA support.


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 Post subject: Re: Changing hosting providers
PostPosted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 9:15 pm 
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I'm about to lock the forums. The new ip will be: 173.255.206.39
I'll update DNS once I have the current databases transferred over. I'll have to update/configure software on the new machine. Hopefully everything will be up and running in a little while.

If your DNS servers are caching the old ip, add the following to your hosts file:
173.255.206.39 www.osdev.org f.osdev.org w.osdev.org forum.wiki.org wiki.osdev.org files.osdev.org smtp.osdev.org osdev.org


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 Post subject: Re: Changing hosting providers
PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 2:08 am 
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Jezze wrote:
Is there any particular reason for the switch? Curious.

Several reasons...

I wanted to switch to CentOS 6
CentoOS 6 in-part because I needed newer PHP to support updating some of the apps and it is a pain to switch in CentOS 5.

The current hosting provider is switching out management software and I've lost the ability remote reboot and look at any stats.

I've trying out switch to a VPS, hardware has gotten fast enough that even a VPS should have enough power. I'm trying out Linode if you are curious.

Price. Colo cost $65 per month but the VPS costs $30 per month.

MediaWiki is now a much newer version. Latest version that supports the phpbb user integration.


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 Post subject: Re: Changing hosting providers
PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 3:55 am 
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chase wrote:
MediaWiki is now a much newer version. Latest version that supports the phpbb user integration.


It seems to have some small regressions (got the same result with both Chrome and Firefox):

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and the fact that an empty category box is placed at the bottom of discussion pages (actually, I dunno whether this was true before but they're not there on Wikipedia).

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 Post subject: Re: Changing hosting providers
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Also, buttons that were there to help with editing pages are gone. I noticed because I always used the signature button on discussion pages and now I have to type everything myself.

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 Post subject: Re: Changing hosting providers
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 Post subject: Re: Changing hosting providers
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GhostXoPCorp wrote:
http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=24470

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As the domain renewals come up I'll be switching away from GoDaddy because of their SOPA support.


Go Daddy don't support SOPA anymore, btw. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_or ... anizations

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 Post subject: Re: Changing hosting providers
PostPosted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 6:48 am 
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The damage has been done besides if we get a better off for a host why not take it?


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 Post subject: Re: Changing hosting providers
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What damage? Also, Go Daddy doesn't provide hosting services, only domains.

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 Post subject: Re: Changing hosting providers
PostPosted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 7:40 am 
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DDNS service, sorry thought they also hosted.


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 Post subject: Re: Changing hosting providers
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GoDaddy does do web hosting, you only have to actually look at their website to see that. What is this place, Slashdot? Does nobody actually check facts or RTFM before posting anymore?


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 Post subject: Re: Changing hosting providers
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I only use GoDaddy for domain register and DNS servers (so DNS still works if server goes down and ya'll can email me). I'll probably switch to NameCheap for DNS and then domain registry once the renewals start coming up. Was using Eleven2/180servers for hosting.

I think GoDaddy only stopped supporting SOPA because of bad PR, but there are still other things I don't like about them. I stayed with them for so long because their prices (with coupons) were cheap and they gave you free DNS servers and forwarding when most places were still charging extra.

I'll have to mess with the media wiki some more. I've found some bug reports that indicate that switching to 1.18 would fix the formatting issue but no one has tested it with the phpBB authentication extension that we are using....


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 Post subject: Re: Changing hosting providers
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quok wrote:
GoDaddy does do web hosting, you only have to actually look at their website to see that. What is this place, Slashdot? Does nobody actually check facts or RTFM before posting anymore?


quok for site admin, chase can gtfo \o/

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