Server Migrations
As many of my clients will know, I’ve been working hard in conjunction with one of the hosting companies I use migrating hosting accounts from one server to another. Such hardware upgrades are essential from time to time in order to maintain the smooth running of websites and the new hardware is more powerful, brand new and more able to cope with the demands of a modern website.
The new server has four quad-core processors giving it a total of 16x 2.4Ghz Xeon processors and 12 GB RAM. This is 4 times as many processors as the previous machine. The server is also running the latest and greatest server software. The combination of which should be more than enough to cope with all we can throw at it. I’ve already noticed a difference in the speed of the machines and have been monitoring server loads which have been much lower than on the previous machine.
The migrations did result in a couple of sleepless nights for me and there were a few minor issues that I had to sort out. As usual, my wife was right and I worried and got myself stressed thinking about all of the things that could go wrong before anything had gone wrong. In the end these things never happened and on the whole the whole process was smoother than I had feared.
Thanks for you patience and hopefully these new servers will continue to perform, providing you with a fast, powerful and stable hosting platform into the future.
Kind Regards,
Alan.
