Switching Hosting Providers
I’ve switched from Vultr.com to the University of Warwick Computing Society (UWCS) for hosting this website. The process was incredibly smooth and easy, all I had to do was export my files off the box I rented from Vultr, upload them onto my user space onto UWCS servers, and change my DNS records.
Top marks to Vultr for being such a good provider, they refunded me the remaining credit on my account even though they could’ve easily chosen not to, and they promptly deleted my account when asked.
A huge thank you to the UWCS tech team for guiding me through getting set up on their infrastructure, their hard work continues to make the society a great place for current students and alumni to hang out.
I expected this to be much harder than it was (for some reason), changing my DNS settings to point this domain to a new location was trivial. A slight pitfall was getting the permissions wrong initially such that all requests for CSS files and blog posts were returning 403 Forbidden, but a quick change with chmod o+r fixed this (I definitely removed all write permissions!). I didn’t have to do anything with backend server software, it was all done for me by tech team and lighttpd.
Oh, also, using the command mv * .. to move all files up a directory won’t catch hidden files, which was a problem since I’ve been using git to track changes to my blog files.
That’s all for this blog post, at the moment I’m not doing much work, instead twiddling my thumbs waiting for my new job to start. I am trying to cobble a script for a video about car dependency in semi-rural England, but that’s slow progress. Stay tuned!