Blog On The Move
If you are a regular reader of my blog perhaps you have noticed that once again I have been slightly absent from regular posting, to say the least! And while I hope Monika provides you with enough information to digest and act upon I wanted to provide a quick explanation…
While I can’t provide full details just yet… for multiple reasons, I had to work over last month on checking, configuring, testing and now migrating bulk of my sites, blogs and business sites to a new host that would allow me create a more controlled, stable and easily expandable environment.
MediaTemple VE server was our final choice as it provided us with all the features we needed and given our technical background was a fairly logical jump. One of the biggest switches was to migrate all out sites, scripts, payment processing, blogs, etc to a new platform: Nginx+FastCGI
Incredible combination that is currently supported this blog and many other thing. Unfortunately migration is not complete yet, so I will be absent a bit more but perhaps I will share the process to those technically inclined to duplicate, if there is enough interest.
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Alex Sysoef is an IT Consultant, Internet Marketer and ProBlogger who shares his passion and knowledge of WordPress, SEO, Social Media and traffic strategies on his blog WordPress Howto Spotter. Connect on Twitter or Facebook
Good luck. Migrations can be a huge pain, hopefully it will be worth it. Please share your results and details.
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Fred,
Its complicated, no doubt, especially when doing everything by hand, since no cPanel available with nginx but its doable. Mostly moving business sites is what takes time as everything has to be double / triple checked.
Great. But want to know. Isn’t there a possibility that you can lose data during the transferring process? And how will you do so you don’t lose them.
It is moved already
years of work as SysAdmin and experience as web developer helps sometimes to avoid any losses 
Alex, glad to hear that your migration was a success! I am a big, no, HUGE fan of the MediaTemple, those guys run a tight ship. Best of luck to you and your business in the new “home”!
Good article Monika.
I especially liked paragraph 4 – these simple yet easy to do ‘tech’ things not only make a huge difference to an adsense blog, but also to any blog, indeed any website.
I am one who is sick and tired of all the spam adsense crap sites. But if people would just put in a small bit of time and effort along with some content, I’d be happy to read (and learn).
- Paul Barrs
Alex,
Would love to hear more about your new hosting provider. Also if you can do a quick post how Nginx differs from Apache – I hear lot of good things about Nginx but am quiet used to Apache hosts not sure I am ready to move. Would love to hear more.
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Vlad,
nginx is extremely efficient, scalable, fast and stable – all the good things. But any host that provides nginx hosting is generally more expensive. Between my partner and me we have about 20+ years of Unix / Linux experience and a few years of working with web technologies and it still took us time and searching for external guidelines how to compile, configure and run the server. But we opted to do everything ourselves, not my first choice but Media Temple offers new VSE server that is allows you to scale from 512MB to 32GB of RAM with instant allocation of resources.
Essentially we can scale very large – very quickly!
I can tell you one thing – this very blog once moved to nginx with everything else being unchanged started to load about twice faster. Other sites we have even more notable and considering that server resources we us are close to same of what we had before – it is definately a champ!
Moving a system as intricate as yours is not for the faint of heart to say the least. No doubt your background experience as a Sysadmin and in the area of web development was very valuable. It is beneficial to understand what is being done, even if you don’t end up doing it yourself. Being the geeky type, I would be very hands on.
With the release of WordPress 3.0, I made the decision to recreate all but one of my blogs on a common theme that worked with the new platform. That has taken a significant amount of time as I am replacing databases as well.
My hosting provider has made the move to using simple scripts for the install of wordpress, which allows for the using of unique database names, database admin names and the use of something other than the standard wp_ prefix for the database itself. I found in the past that changing the prefix for a mature blog as opposed to a new one led to a number of errors and it is simpler to redo the entire blog. Still a lot of work and testing involved, along with the learning curve as I’d not tried anything of this nature before. By using a test environment, I was able to work out any issues without impacting the main blog. The actual tear down and setup of the new replacement theme on the main blog is taking under an hour once all backups have been done.
I have found that in a situation of this nature, the export feature in WordPress was a very valuable tool and as a result will doing monthly exports as a backup in addition to the database backups. I am going to look for a automated tool for exporting.
Two more blogs to go, including the one above. Above all, this has been a good learning experience. Congrads on your new setup.
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hope you can finishing you site soon,so i can follow your post,keep working.
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Wow – that’s a lot of effort for you, Alex – hope it works out well! In light of the issues with your old host, I’m surprised to hear you’re moving everything to one hosting company again. In the spirit of ‘once bitten, twice shy’ I would have thought you’d spread your sites across a few different hosts. As you know, Teri & I use 5 different hosts and have been very glad of that fact on more than one occasion…
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I really like your blog, Do you have advertising spots available?
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I’m glad to hear that the transferring process was done without any problems and I hope you will not have to go through this process again in the future:)
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