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Quoting: GroganCongrats on the smooth move (no, this isn't an Ex-Lax advert lol) :-)It was pretty dashed smooth, wasn't it? Normally I expect a bit of weird stuff during a transition.
I hope you financially benefit from that :)
Quoting: Purple Library GuyQuoting: GroganCongrats on the smooth move (no, this isn't an Ex-Lax advert lol) :-)It was pretty dashed smooth, wasn't it? Normally I expect a bit of weird stuff during a transition.
I'm always too paranoid to do it that way, but if you're moving to another rig with an appropriate version of Cpanel (i.e. an expected upgrade path) and have done everything the "Cpanel way" (not going too far outside the box) in theory you should just be able to seamlessly restore the entire appliance using your backup archives. (or sites individually should be safer)
I've never tried it, because I'm always afraid of doing something that will make me lose control of the box and have to call the datacenter. Most often their solutions are to re-image, so I don't take leaps of faith on servers.
My big lesson... one time I had to coach a technician to poke and stab to boot the box to the old kernel after the network didn't come up with mine. He wasn't very knowledgeable and this was almost going to be a ticket for a re-image if not for that. This was in the Redhat 7.0 days (before RHEL, this was in 2002 that this happened to me), their silly init scripts wouldn't initialize the network if the NIC driver wasn't a module. My second build did, and it worked. This Slackware user (at the time) sure didn't like that lol. I was a lot more careful after that, it was our forum server and people were frantically emailing me telling me the site was down.
Last edited by Grogan on 22 October 2023 at 7:36 pm UTC
Congrats for the migration, and thanks as always for all the quality content you keep providing!
QuoteWe’ve successfully moved over to AlmaLinux from a nearing EOL CentOS, to ensure that GamingOnLinux can continue operating long into the future on a modern server software platform.
What made you go with AlmaLinux instead of Rocky Linux?
Quoting: Grogantheir silly init scripts wouldn't initialize the network if the NIC driver wasn't a module. My second build did, and it worked. This Slackware user (at the time) sure didn't like that lol.
Do you think we have a reputation for being "picky"? I noped out of Linode back in the early 2010s when I tested their Slackware images and found they did some iffy things to the init scripts. It was long ago, I forget, but I didn't like it
QuoteDid you also notice the Thunderbird banner recently?
Yes! Happy to see a non intrusive advertisement :)
StoneColdSpider Oct 22, 2023
Quoting: PenglingGOD DAMMIT PENGLING!!!!!QuoteGamingOnLinux just did a full server migration and so if you’re seeing this, welcome back home, please wipe your feet at the door.Sorry, I accidentally blew up the door on the way in. Hope it wasn't too expensive!
This is why we cant have nice things.........
Quoting: StoneColdSpiderGOD DAMMIT PENGLING!!!!!Hey, Salvatos ruined it first!
This is why we cant have nice things.........
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