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date: 2009-11-26
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- servers
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- linux
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title: Moving Servers and Doing It Right
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Well, I finally bit the bullet and got a Linode account. So far I'm pretty
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happy with it. I figured that with the costs of power and bandwidth, I was
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almost spending $20/month to run my old server on my own hardware.
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Incidentally, the lowest-grade Linode VM costs that much and is enough to
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suit my needs.
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So now that I've been setting up a webserver from scratch again, I'm doing
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it right this time. I'm setting up some monitoring software to notify me when
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things go down, I'm no longer relying on myself for DNS (no more dynamic IPs!),
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and I'm also branching out and trying an alternative webserver.
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The webserver in question is [Cherokee](http://cherokee-project.com/) which claims
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to use less memory and
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perform better than Apache. It sure does use less memory, but as a down side
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it doesn't have a native PHP module, so I'm required to use FastCGI for that
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purpose. Right now, there's five php-cgi processes running each using about
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25-30 MB. This wouldn't be a problem except that I've only got 360 MB of memory
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to play with. On the plus side its got a pretty sweet admin interface with wizards
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to help you set up things like WordPress, Drupal, Ruby on Rails, Django, etc. and
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you can setup some pretty complex rules for what and how files should be hosted.
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On the monitoring side of things, I'm using [Munin](http://munin.projects.linpro.no/) to monitor the various
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[stats on the server](http://terminalunix.com/munin/), [Piwik](http://piwik.org/) for website visit statistics, and I plan on getting [Monit](http://mmonit.com/monit/) going
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for service monitoring. It's a bit more important now that I keep and eye on memory
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and data transfer now that I'm limited on that. Also, if some process goes wild and
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starts using crazy amounts of CPU power and memory, I'll be able to catch it.
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Unfortunately when you move servers, you have to move everything that was running
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on them. I'm still in that process, but it's been going pretty smoothly.
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