Over the past few months the traffic on my server has gone up quite substantially. Though it’s nowhere near a massive blog or anything it is quite a load for my server and logs show repeated memory warnings as well as slow responsiveness.

Currently I’m hosted on mediatemple (dv) base – 512mb server. It’s been a great experience though the next upgrade is quite costly and I wasn’t ready to spend quite that much just yet.

They recently just launched their (ve) server which is a barebones linux do it yourself sort of server. I’m not really a linux guru but I thought I’d give it a shot.

After about 4 days of reading a ton of tutorials and resetting the server about 20 times I actually have moved one of my domains over completely ( http://www.robertjpayne.com ) as well as the mail service behind it.

I set it up using nginx as a reverse proxy to apache. Basically that means nginx serves any static content and proxy’s any dynamic content to apache for processing. This reduces the server load A LOT and results in a lot faster response times.

Over the next day or so I’ll be moving this site as well as the zwoptex site over as well.

While migrating there may be problems with the following:

• Frequent errors including 404′s, Forbidden and Internal Server Errors
• Emails bouncing when sending email to any of the @zwoptexapp.com emails
• Orders will process via paypal but may take awhile to process on my system and generate a registration key. Where applicable I’ll be emailing anyone that is affected and manually forcing it to process immediately.

With all luck it’ll be a very smooth transition with little issues and be up and running again in no time!

-Robert