{"id":1052,"date":"2011-09-21T20:37:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T00:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2011-09-21T20:37:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T00:37:29","slug":"changing-hosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1052","title":{"rendered":"changing hosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After several years of being hosted at <a href=\"http:\/\/tektonic.net\">tektonic<\/a>, it has come time to move hosts.<\/p>\n<p>My current web server is running 32-bit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/centos.org\">CentOS<\/a> 4.9. Eek! That is old.<\/p>\n<p>Since upgrading to a new release of CentOS is now becoming more urgent, and upgrading is really reinstalling a new OS, I&#8217;ve started to look at new hosts. I&#8217;ve considered <a href=\"http:\/\/chunkhost.com\/r\/wmbna\">Chunk Host<\/a>, but while their entry-level service are Okay, they&#8217;re not really in line with what I need at this time. Likewise, I have review <a href=\"http:\/\/iweb.com\/\">iWeb<\/a>&#8216;s offerings, but unless I go for a colo, they&#8217;re not going to suit my personal needs well, either.<\/p>\n<p>My requirements for a new host are the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CentOS 6 x64 (for a variety of reasons &#8211; this is not a religious thing: I have evaluated other distros\/platforms, and this is the best option for <em>me<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>at least 250GB of storage (&gt;500G preferable)<\/li>\n<li>several CPU cores (a <em>minimum<\/em>\u00a0of 2, 4 or 8 would be better)<\/li>\n<li>at least 4GB RAM<\/li>\n<li>decent amount of available traffic (though I don&#8217;t anticipate major traffic patterns for some time)<\/li>\n<li>at<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What I am planning to run:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apache (ports 80 and 443) hosting several domains<\/li>\n<li>MySQL<\/li>\n<li>Plone (on 8080)<\/li>\n<li>PostgreSQL<\/li>\n<li>sendmail for several domains<\/li>\n<li>SVN<\/li>\n<li>Trac<\/li>\n<li>WordPress with some plugins (one of which is a little CPU intensive)<\/li>\n<li>a backup\u00a0store for myself (hence the storage requirements)\n<ul>\n<li>OS media<\/li>\n<li>personal files<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>continued mirroring of <a href=\"http:\/\/m0n0.ch\">m0n0wall<\/a><\/li>\n<li>oh &#8211; and it&#8217;d be nice if it was in the same rough price range as what I&#8217;m spending\u00a0now\u00a0on far less \ud83d\ude42 (2GB 2CPU 60GB on one host, and 512M 4CPU 20GB on my other host &#8211; total ~$45\/month)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So far, I have found a couple viable options &#8211; but have not 100% settled on them yet.<\/p>\n<p>I am curious as to what alternatives may exist in this area that I have not yet seen, and would appreciate any suggestions \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several years of being hosted at tektonic, it has come time to move hosts. My current web server is running 32-bit\u00a0CentOS 4.9. Eek! That is old. Since upgrading to a new release of CentOS is now becoming more urgent, and upgrading is really reinstalling a new OS, I&#8217;ve started to look at new hosts. &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1052\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">changing hosts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30,31,41],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-personal","category-technical"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}