It's a good thing both active clients are having downtime this week, 'cause I wouldn't be getting much real work done.
As of this afternoon, all the DNS-related matters related to the server move are under control, and I'll be able to reassign CNAMEs as needed, shuffling services from the bathroom home server to the VPS in the datacenter with the nice fast net connection (and no dependency on the DSL line that's tied to my current address).
I've just got the laptop (with its fresh installation of Linux on the SSD) configured to the point where I can use it for (a) e-mail, (b) blog updates, and (c) banking. It was important to get that working before I tear down the workstation and give it a fresh install on its new SSD.
Speaking of SSDs: there does seem to be an Issue with dropping a new drive into an older computer; on the laptop (2009 vintage? Hey, it still runs), I keep getting SATA PHY errors (various flavors) when there's heavy write traffic - like right now, as I copy over many gigabytes of VM images. At least they're recoverable, so it's not as bad as the transition from SATA to SATA2; I seem to recall that some motherboards with SATA controllers, confronted with supposedly-backward-compatible SATA2 drives, would respond with comprehensive bus hangs - so, back when I was using one of those motherboards, I had to ensure that any replacement drives had the "force SATA 1 mode" jumper.
Probably over the weekend I'll be switching the mail server over, and perhaps setting the CNAMEs so that existing working copies of the Subversion stuff will automagically point back to the new repository.
There's a lot of configuration cruft to be sorted through; the various things I'm hosting have been accreting for well over 16 years now, and moved from (if memory serves) Slackware to FreeBSD to Debian - or was it on OpenBSD at one point? - and trying to get the latest-version Debian configuration compatible with that on the dangerously-obsolete installation I'm replacing is a bit of an adventure.
Hmmm. Guess I'll move the PostgreSQL contents over this evening, and have a go at switching the web server. Got a bunch of virtual subdomains to configure, but those don't see much use these days anyway.
Post-relocation, there'll be a glorious new web site for Gumbyware (probably also hosting a new blog, with a new name), and the quirky old site will be relegated to the "classic" subdomain.
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