Oct 22 2011

Bye-bye Godaddy!

Category: Uncategorizedzvolkov @ 9:48 pm

Today I’m totally happy. Earlier this year I have migrated this blog from BlogEngine.NET onto WordPress.
Today I have finished moving all my web sites off Godaddy and onto Linode VPS.
Here’s the stack I run now:

  • openSUSE Linux 11.4. Liking it more than Ubuntu so far. Compare names: “apt-get” vs. “zypper”. The standard greeting says “Have a lot of fun!”.
  • nginx. Superfast, simple, powerful web-server optimized for static content (but not only). Helped me configure redirects from zvolkov.com/blog to zvolkov.com/clog and from zvolkov.com/poignant_ru to www.poignant.ru.
  • MySQL. Moving two WordPress databases I had on Godaddy over was a piece of cake.
  • PHP with PHP-FPM and APC. The latter is an opcode cache for PHP.
  • WordPress. I was concerned about moving existing WordPress installation from Windows to Linux by copying files, but surprisingly, this was painless.
  • WP Super Cache. This plugin creates static gzip files for each WordPress post, which then can be served by ngnix w/o the overhead of PHP and SQL processing.

By far the most interesting and demanding part of the move was tweaking nginx.

4 Responses to “Bye-bye Godaddy!”

  1. Denys Ivanov says:

    Хмм ранится очень быстро
    Похоже на рулезз

  2. zvolkov says:

    А как я с ним здорово поебался!

  3. Q-Zma says:

    а какой план у тебя на linode?

    • zvolkov says:

      Ой, сорри, только щас камент заметил. План самый маленький: 512MB RAM, 20GB disk, 200GB/month traffic, $20/month