Moving to the Cloud. LiveCodeServer on Linux CentoOS vs Ubuntu 11

David Bovill david at viral.academy
Sat Apr 4 09:03:35 EDT 2015


I'm looking to run a LiveCode server daemon on Digital Ocean alongside a
NodeJS Server to do some experiments. Could anyone fill em in with regard
to your experience on this platform  - it's a test server - so if anyone
want to join in experimenting I'll happily share ?

On 26 February 2015 at 06:55, Brahmanathaswami <brahma at hindu.org> wrote:

> Thanks, Richard/Simon:
>
> Thanks for the encouragement... knowing that it should go well helps with
> the job (these migrations are tedious)
>
> 1) It's Digital Ocean we're moving to... two other sites run by the
> business team (minimela.com and hhe-online.org) are already over on
> Digital Ocean and they are extremely happy with it. Lighting fast (but the
> sites are very light weight)
>
> 2) Ubuntu "11"   I don't know what I'm talking about (hehe)... If Simon
> says they are up to 14.* then that's what it will be. I've got all tweaks
> to httpd conf very well documented so setting up the new web service I hope
> will go smoothly. It's easy with VirtualMin/WebMin -- the "dream machine"
> of web server control panels IMHO  (having used Plesk, Ensim, Cpanel... all
> of which drove me nuts)
>
> 3) Just installed keys on the current server yesterday.. really "cool" !
>
> 4) I'll test with the latest LC server 7... What does it offer on the
> server that is significant over 6.* ? Unicode is becoming increasing
> important... but I think all that is in 6.7...
>
> 4) Papaya fresh yogurt, breakfast with Expresso with fresh Jersey cream
> and free fabulous vegetarian lunch awaits you here on Kauai if you want to
> come over and help me with the migration. I might even be able to get you
> free lodging within 5 minutes of our place. (Do you need a break?)
>
> This will be my 8th server migration in 20 years since we first moved onto
> a machine in Honolulu in 1995 and it looks like it will be the easiest.
> (VirtualMin makes it easy)
>
> Our target to complete migration by May 19... so we are giving our selves
> plenty of time.  I'll be spinning up 16GB ram 8 Core 320GB (or more) SSD
> instance at Digital Ocean any day now, happy to get off this dedicated
> server at GoGrid. Last year it had a file system error and I was sweating
> for 15 hours (longest outage in 20 years)  as tech kept running fsck until
> finally in the middle of the night it finished and we got a prompt! I never
> want to go thru that again.
>
> Cheers from perfect weather Kauai
>
> Actually we are going thru an very uncharacteristic drought by we don't
> miss all the mold and mud of the usual Kauai winter.
>
> BR
>
>
>
> Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>>
>> The first thing Brahmanathaswami will want to do is set up his shared
>> keys, and Digital Ocean has a good tutorial on that:
>> <https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-
>> set-up-ssh-keys--2>
>>
>
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