Moving to the Cloud

Thursday, July 3. 2008

After lots of thinking, I've decided that I'm going to move all my sites to Mosso cloud hosting.

Frankly, it's just too much work to maintain my own systems, and Mosso is $30/month cheaper than my dedicated server. In addition, as things grow for me, I think Mosso will prove to be a much more scalable proposition; including being able to have them handle support and billing of my clients.

I moved the ZCE Guide site over there last night and it was just so easy, I figured, what the hell may as well do the big move and push over my blog.

I was able to use the mysql command line client to push a SQL dump directly from my current server to Mosso's server(s) and after a lengthy (30+MB) upload and a config tweak, it just worked. Very impressed with Mosso so far

Just need to find a way to combine all my mailboxes into one. It looks like forwarding might be the best option.

If you're seeing this post, then your DNS already updated and you're looking at the new site, yay for you!

- Davey

Posted by Davey Shafik in PHP at 02:49 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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I am glad you like the product! Please feel free to contact me with any issues. And give me feedback if you want - I love customer feedback!

Rob

#1 Rob La Gesse (Homepage) on 2008-07-03 03:04 (Reply)

BTW - what was the "config tweak"? If it is something we can prevent, we will.

Rob

#2 Rob La Gesse (Homepage) on 2008-07-03 03:15 (Reply)

The config tweak was purely a software thing. The DB host, name and credentials, as well as the new system path.

Nothing big

- Davey

#2.1 Davey Shafik (Homepage) on 2008-07-03 03:26 (Reply)

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Davey Shafik is a full time PHP Developer with 7-10 years experience in PHP and related technologies. An avid magazine writer and soon to be book author, Davey keeps his mind sharp by trying to tackle problems from a unique perspective.