Tue, 04 Apr 2006

Migrating servers

And the blog is migrated... mostly... to a new server. Both old and new servers are running in parallel now so there shouldn't be a break in service for those of you who read the shonky tat I irregularly scribble here. I have learned a couple of things from this:

Separation of DNS machine names and service names is a good thing - I'm glad I had done this a long time ago.
Apache vhosts are for teh win! As is the ReWrite engine.
DNS propagation delays are a PITA, even when you prepare and set the TTL to be low. I guess the main issue is DNS cache servers that ignore small TTLs and up them despite being asked politely and RFC compliantly not to.
Mac keyboards are tremendously irritating with their shifted ", | (pipe), @, etc. I WILL figure out the overly complex keymapping language they use and make the keyboard on my iBook work the way I want it to before I go completely insane.

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