In preparation of the UNDP Spot the Future project, I moved the Edgeryders site and all other websites from our webserver to a new webserver. This is my first post with the site running on the new server already.
We are still with Germany-based Host Europe, but now have a package with the following improvements:
- Guaranteed CPU time. We now have two cores on an Intel Xeon E5-2620 2.1 GHz CPU forever, which is an improvement over a VPS with CPU time sharing before. The super-slow moments of the site should be history now. (We simply were a bit unlucky with the last server, as we arrived at a machine that had at least one site that caused load peaks at times ... .)
- 8 GiB RAM. Compared to about 3 GiB at the old server, this is more than enough for PHP-FPM below, and for some free web hosting that we can offer to the Edgeryders community :)
- Ubuntu 13.10 (compared to Ubuntu 10.04 on the old server)
- ISPConfig. My favorite open source web hosting control panel, replacing commercial Plesk 11 from the old server.
- PHP 5.5 (this version comes with the integrated OpCache, already enabled, which should speed up sites considerably; I have to fine-tune it still)
- PHP-FPM. A faster PHP process manager that is possible with ISPConfig, but was impossible with Plesk. At the moment we're on FastCGI as I have to iron out an issue with it still, but expect a further speedup soon :)
- Improved security. I have installed fail2ban (firewalling people for 10 minutes after 3 failed logins to SSH etc.) and suexec based full access rights isolation of websites against each other. Both was not possible in the Plesk-based setup of the old server.
(Also having to move a community website without downtime or concurrent updates? I have documented the process that I used.)
But I don’t mind, you may move it to the blog as is, or if you feel like creating a more interesting text, even better …