Bought a new server...

Finally broke down and bought a new server. I was looking in the bargin bin and thought that every time my server goes down I lose money so I should just pony up and get a new one that can handle the traffic.

Dual Xeon Quad Core E5462, 2.8Mgz 8gigs ram, 1 TB hd...

Now come the hard part of getting my big sites over to the new machine.

Is your old server hosted by the same company? If so you it should be pretty easy to transfer.

What was the specs of your old machine?

No, old server is 3000 miles away, and is leased - which means I don't get to keep it, nor do Ieven get the HD in my hand, I must download the server and start fresh.

My monthly payment will actually go down as I will pay only for bandwidth and colocation. Old server was 1mgz, AMD, 500k ram...

Ah so you actually bout a server, machine and all. Well, once you get your server setup and configured you can use scp (Allows you to copy contents from one server to another via SSH) to copy your entire web folder (home?) from your old machine to the new one. That way your not limited to your home connection. It will do the transfer server to server.



That will transfer your entire home directory from one server to the other. You might want to tar.gz the folder first to lower the transfer size.

Can't really be done, I have about 100 gigs of data...

I will transfer about 10 domains manually, then have to figure out how to FTP the rest of the stuff...I would like to do it from home server to server would be better...not sure yet.

Whats stopping you from doing a server to server transfer?

I think I will set up the server in my house when I get it, then transfer it to the location once it's set up. Most of my new content is on my home machine.

I think part of it is I want to set up the new server without cpanel, and I am not sure I will be able to do that...

I hope your new server is at least raid1?

Also do you have ssh access to your old server or is it ftp only with cpanel?

I pretty much have everything on my old server - ssh an all since it's dedicated. The old server only has a 500Gig hd so I don't really care, and most of the new content is on my home machine already.

My biggest concern, is how to set it up etc as this will be my first colocation server, rather than leasing.

I don't know if the motherboard has built in RAID, but it does have two identical 500gig HD's. I will see once I get it if the motherboard has it.

I am not sure if I should set them up as a RAID1 and add an additional HD. I've never had a HD failure, so I am a little green on this. I think I want to set them up in a RAID1 config, and add an additional HD...

See now if I were you I would have gotten the biggest hard drives they had to offer, and then as many of them as they let you put in the server. Two 500GB drives for a terabyte is a RAID1 (striping), so you'll have decent read/write speed because it can run both drives simultaneously, buuuuuut you've got no fault tolerance so if one drives kicks the bucket you are SOL. Lets say the server can hold up to 5 drives, at 500GB each, in a RAID5, you'd have a total of 2TB of usable space with fault tolerance that would let you loose one drive and not experience and serious downtime. Thats just what I would have done, that kind of thing is worth the extra money.

I will probably buy a 2TB drive to add to the system and cron mysql backups on to it, but am not worried about data integrity (at the moment). I need to focus on the server handling the current traffic and turning into cash.

If it fails in 3 months I just upload and start over with 2 days downtime. If it doesn't fail I can upgrade to a 5 HD raid system later in a year or two.

RAID-1 is Mirroring kc0tma. RAID-0 is striping.

Can a raid system, take 4 500GB drives, and mirror them on a single 2TB drive?

From the looks of it I dont think you'll have any problem with traffic if you configure it correctly. Thats a beast of a machine.