Dedicated server Nov 21 2005

I’m looking at the possibility of upgrading my server package at the minute, and how feasible it is. There are a couple of reasons I want to do this. Three in fact. Firstly, a beefier server is always welcome. Secondly, some of the other server packages include backup options for free within the package, and I really want to get a good backup sorted. And thirdly, some of the packages also have unlimited bandwidth - currently I’m limited to 10GB bandwidth a month, and above that I pay for the extra. So far, I’m well under this limit, but I know for a fact that it pays to be mindful of future expansion, and so I’m keeping one eye on options ;-)

The trouble at the minute would be to migrate existing data to a new server - looks like I’ll have to run two packages at the same time for a month or two, while I copy over my data to a new server. Hmm…

In the meantime, I’ve tidied up my current server, spending a large part of this week clearing out a lot of crap, restructuring the sites, sorting out the LDAP directory, and performing general maintenance on the box. Hopefully the result will be slightly increased performance, we shall see!