Karen Cravens (Mod) wrote:
Carl has been walking around the house all evening going "We finished migrating roc to garuda!" (I.e., everything is hosted at the hosting service.)
Man, it doesn't take much to make a sysadmin happy.
There's a lot of history there.
The migration of firebird to roc was a big deal... we were working on it for over three years. One temporary box got installed and abandoned because the firebird hardware became obsolete and we bought new box to replace it and could build the new system directly on the target hardware. (Instead of building on a temporary box and then moving the drive into the existing hardware.)
The migration from firebird to roc was fraught with peril... we changed from Apache 1 to 2, from BIND 8 to 9, from MySQL to PostgreSQL, and from Sendmail to Exim (a _huge_ change). firebird was installed in 1999 and never upgraded! (Except manually-applied security patches). So it was a very big effort to move to roc... we had to reconfigure a lot of stuff, and I had to learn how to manage Exim.
When we _finally_ got moved entirely to roc... when I finally had this weight lifted from my shoulders, we were there only a handful of months before we had problems with saturating our outbound bandwidth and began the process of migrating to garuda, the dedicated server.
I'm not so much happy as stunned... we're done. It's all migrated, even the niggly stuff that never got moved off firebird. We can downgrade the business DSL to a residential account and cut our costs by $25 a month. (Offset by the $40 a month for the dedicated server.)
Happiness hasn't actually sunk in yet.
