'Sleeper'
Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
I don't think the lack of Plesk is an issue--Tom certainly doesn't need an interface, and I've been using Dreamhost for my personal sites since 2005.
My main issue will be making sure the code works fine in PHP 5.
And we need to make sure Jon has the same access he has now. And email migration.
Oh, god, this feels like my real job all of a sudden. Please don't make me create tickets for change control, or I'll have an episode.
That's me, right? $99/month.
You know it, Cowgirl.
So we could cut that pretty dramatically in the end.
Just the migration makes me want to cry. But I'll put on my big girl panties.
I think that looks like a good option.
And we need to make sure Jon has the same access he has now.
As long as I can get FTP access, I'm good.
Here's my tentative plan:
Since my dreamhost account has all the unlimiteds (pretty much like what we'd get), I'll try and migrate a copy of here to a subdomain of my backup account there when I get my assact together. I'm not making schedule promises right now, because I've made some other web dev promises to myself, but it's second on the list.
That's a good plan. Is there tedious stuff that shmoes can do?
Wanna go over the code and make sure it's up to PHP 5 spec? I can guarantee you that's going to be tedious.
Because Dreamhost doesn't have it. Neither does Hostgator. I don't think many good places will be advertising having it. PHP 5 is almost 10 years old.
Involved, yeah, but that part's a bit more necessary than adapting to the cloud requirements.
We could install any version of PHP we wanted on a vps. It's only on a shared hosting account where we have to take what's given. And I wouldn't think we'd want to go back to a shared hosting account given that the trouble we had with it led to the dedicated server in the first place.
So I recommend transitioning to a vps where we can install all the same components the board depends on (or at least the same major versions) and get it running again. If there's a desire to do a php5 upgrade that can be a second effort.
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