Migrated To New Server Over The Weekend

Everton | Jun 29, 2009 | Comments


I’ve had to move servers again and the migration was completed over the weekend.  I’d like to thank my new hosts WiredTree for a very professional move, which had no major hiccups.  Already users should see major speed improvements on the site, which will increase over the coming weeks as we tweak the server.

I decided to move away from my previous hosts Liquidweb because the way my bandwidth usage was going thanks to Windows 7 News, which has grown a lot faster than I’d expected (or hoped!), I was going to break through my 2TB bandwidth usage in a month or so.   Buying more bandwidth wasn’t economic with Liquidweb, and in fact it was actually cheaper getting a second dedicated server which would give me a second allowance.

However, I decided to move because I was getting a bit frustrated with the turnaround on support issues.  One of the problems of being UK based is I tend to be going to be bed when site usage starts to peak, and of course that’s when problems occur.  So, I wasn’t happy that LiquidWeb were too slow to respond to issues, particularly when I wanted to sleep!

So far, I’m very happy with Wiredtree and their support has been fantastic.  My new server is a beast and is probably over-specified , but I’ve done this deliberately as I’d rather pay more for additional reliability and sleep!  Reliability has recently become a more pressing issue as I now depend on the income my sites make to pay my bills, whereas before the income was just a bit of extra pocket money.

Here’s my new spec:

  • Intel Dual Xeon Harpertown 5420 (2.50GHZ 12MB Cache)
  • 16GB ECC Registered
  • Primary Disk: Hardware Raid-5 3×250GB 7.2k RPM SATAII 16MB Cache
  • Additional Drive: 250GB 7.2k RPM SATAII 16MB Cache to run mysql databases
  • Remote Backup Space: 50 GB Remote Backup Space

As you can see I’ve also added an off-site backup option.  Losing my server would be an absolute disaster for me.  If you are not backing up offline then I highly recommend that you download a backup every couple of days.


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About the Author: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day.

  • I actually recommend to download a backup every day even if you have an automated backup solution in place on a second server. If the hoster decides to disable access you still got the backup you can work with. And if they are hit with an atombob you still got your backups although that might not be the most important thing at this moment.
  • it should read atombomb :)
  • I agree spending a little more on your server really helps you sleep well, not bothered if your site will go down due to limited resources.  After all the site pays for itself. I also shifted to Knownhost VPS and found the support really fast.

  • Good idea – I’ve set this up now

  • testing threaded comments again

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