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Migration to Lighttpd

Updated: January 2, 2009December 18, 2005

Today I migrated all of my personal websites to a new server. My hosting provider offered me access to a faster server running FreeBSD and LightTPD. I have been hearing for quite some time now about the great performance LightTPD has. They have it setup so Apache can proxy requests to my vhosts on to LightTPD. I now have full control to restart any of my Rails apps whenever I like.

Moving didn't take long at all, a couple hours or so, including DNS updates. Some people dread that sort of thing I would imagine, but I don't mind it at all. It gives me a chance to do some cleanup and reorganize anything that needs it. For example I decided to move my resume to a subdomain instead of it's usual location.

In the process of upgrading I discovered my PHP-based Rated Site had some issues. Some of the same session-related problems I addressed months ago were suddenly reappearing for no apparent reason. Luckily I had only commented out the offending code, so undoing it was simple.. problem solved. I discovered since I was using PHP 5.1 now, I had to use a newer version of JPGraph. That took about 2 minutes to resolve. My Wiki didn't work right off the bat, but it was because my hosting provider needed to activate Apache's mod_rewrite. I thought mod_rewrite was always on by default, but not so in this case.

Now I'm waiting for DNS to propagate for my new domain pushed.in. I have no idea what I'm going to build but I'm sure I'll come up with something. Feel free to drop me a line if you think you might have something that would work :)

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