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How to Survive a Bad Hosting Provider and Preserve Your Sanity
How to Survive a Bad Hosting Provider and Preserve Your Sanity
Version: 0.02 - DRAFT
Introduction
This document was prompted by the events surrounding the implosion of the hosting provider FeaturePrice and is intended as an informal guide for web hosting customers to the pitfalls and common sense practices of web hosting.
The fundamental premise of this guide is that even good hosts can go bad very quickly and thus the emphasis is on mitigating the impact of that eventuality.
Posted by markus on Thursday, July 31, 2003
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RAID conversion
The following article is a concise description of a VMware dry run to convert a Redhat 7.3 server to a software RAID. The actual server migration is more complex and involves breaking a "hardware" RAID on an onboard Fastrack controller. An objective of the test run is to avoid use of a boot disk, as it hangs during kernel startup on the real hardware.To outline the procedure, we set up new mirror sets where the new disks are primary and the original disk are set up as failed secondary. We create new filesystems on the degraded mirrors, copy the data, make them bootable, and finally add the original disks to the mirror.
Click to read MORE...Posted by markus on Monday, June 23, 2003
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