December 8th - Thursday

[Toby]

Originally Posted by Cleo

Mojo wants to move my server and Foxy's server to their new system...

I've been with Mojo since 2007, had been on the same box up until earlier this year. It was on borrowed time after nine years, so they moved me to a new box before there was a major failure.

I was aware of PHP version issues with some of the scripts, so we went with what we thought was the most recent compatible version. Turned out we had to back up a couple of versions. Even knowing where most of the stumps were, it took about a week to track down everything that wasn't working right. Only two of the domains are hosted for others, and they're very basic, so no issues with those.

It wasn't much fun, but given the alternative should a hardware failure have occurred, it was time well spent. The new box is considerably faster too. I guess my point is that sooner or later you're going to have to move to a new server. Perhaps you can migrate in stages, to avoid having a bunch of clients to deal with all at the same time.