If you are running dedicated servers, virtual private servers or even hosting accounts, you need some backup plans to cover eventualities. I was away for the last five days and had to make sure that I could react immediately when I would receive notice of an emergency. You need to know that I run a [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Transfer to the new server was successful
I’m happy to announce that the transfer to the new server was successful. We tried to keep the downtime to a minimum by reducing the TTL of the Nameserver to a bare minimum. Some comments have been lost, let me explain why that happened. We made a MySQL database dump on the old server and had to transfer the database to the new one and import it there.
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Ghacks is moving servers
Ghacks is running on the same dedicated server for almost two years and I decided that it is time for a change and rent a faster rootserver and move all the domains and files from the old to the new server. The old server was running on an Athlon 64 3000 with 2 Megabytes of RAM while the new server is running AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Dual Core with 4 Gigabyte of RAM.