11/28/2005

Moving

Cardoe wrote this at around evening time:

My blog/web hosting/e-mail is moving over to Dreamhost because it’s probably more reliable, definitely faster, and by far cheaper. So there might be some downtime for me and my e-mails while the DNS switches over. And of course you might look a bit expensive, but if you’re interested, use the discount code 80offnow which is what I used to sign up for 12 months. Cost me $3.28 a month, much cheaper then PHPWebhosting at $9.95 for a slow website.

* Filed under: General, Linux

7 Responses to “Moving”

  1. Nick Dimiduk Says:
    November 29th, 2005 at 2:56 pm

    Thanks a lot for the reference! I’ve been shopping around (rather half-heartedly) for a web host over the last month or so. This host looks about as featureful as any other host I’d stumbled upon and the promotional price sealed the deal. I put your site down as a reference, but I don’t think it gave you any benifit because I used the promo. I look forward to having some content up as soon as the dns propogates.

  2. Dave Says:
    November 29th, 2005 at 4:50 pm

    I am thinking of switching as well… If you could document on your blog briefly, what is involved in switching that would be great. As if and when I switch, I will mostly likely switch to Dreamhost. So far the only things I can think it would involve would be creating a dump of my mysql database, importing the database, then copying over the wordpress directory with all the php. Then changing the DNS. I would be curious to know if there are any more gotchas though…

  3. Dan Says:
    November 30th, 2005 at 7:30 am

    I am a dreamhost fan also. They have hosted my site for a while

    The only thing I dislike is the amount of time it takes anything to propogate, due to the way the servers are layed out (subdomains are not necessarily on the same server as domains) and other things. Beyond that, they are cheap, friendly, and good

  4. Cardoe Says:
    December 1st, 2005 at 12:34 am

    Dave, I used PHPMyAdmin to create a SQL file of my current Wordpress database then uploaded it to Dreamhost and used their one-click install of Wordpress and then did mysql -u ${user} -h ${host} -p

  5. Dave Says:
    December 1st, 2005 at 1:49 pm

    Would something like this:

    # mysqldump \
    -uroot \
    -p$PASSWORD \
    -hlocalhost \
    –all-databases \
    –all \
    –opt \
    –allow-keywords \
    –flush-logs \
    –hex-blob \
    –master-data \
    –max_allowed_packet=16M \
    –quote-names \
    –result-file=BACKUP_MYSQL_4.0.SQL

    be appropriate? Found on http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrading.xml. That’s what I use to backup my local database every night.

  6. Cardoe Says:
    December 1st, 2005 at 5:23 pm

    Exactly Dave. That will give you an .sql file that includes all the SQL commands to recreate your database from nothing.

  7. Blaze Says:
    November 2nd, 2006 at 7:01 pm

    Dreamhost is quick good :) So goddamn cheap. I just hope that promo code is yours otherwise you’re giving someone else money for free ;)

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