Okay, really 24

I got a couple of more sites done.  Still going too slowly.

26 on bashful

Okay, this isn't supposed to be a to-do list, but hey, it's my blog, and I happen to need to list stuff and I'm not near my notebook, so here goes:

• nyrelay redo vps (25% done)
• aboud win development (50% done)
• more bashful migrations
• invoices

30 left on bashful

Just a few deletions, no migrations tonight.

33 on bashful

Very slow progress this week.  One new VPS, very small, a couple of cancellations, a couple of new sites.  A lot of time spent on personal stuff.

36 left on bashful

got a few more done today

40 left on bashful

Progress, but it's time to close the Parallels ticket.  This means that if I run into another snag, I'll have to shell out another $75.

Also, it's time to start thinking about moving the DNS.  If I'm able to progress, at this speed by next week we'll be up to the really tough sites.  I keep having to skip a bunch as it is.

bashful - 46 left

Today was fairly productive, as these things go.  I worked extensively with a new VPS customer, learned some interesting things about a different aspect of the business (which I'll blog about if I pursue it) and got the customer going with setting up their domains.

Migrated a bunch of sites from bashful to grumpy.  It's going a bit faster, but that means that the problematic ones are coming along soon.

53 left on bashful

It's going slowly.

Site Studio still has some hopefully minor cosmetic issues, but things look good otherwise.  Obviously bashful won't be gone by the 15th, but I'm working daily on migrating sites.

I may try to spend some time today working on upgrading / migrating the support site, and the domains site is overdue for an upgrade too.

August expectations

Some of this will definitely slide into September.  For sure I won't finish bashful this month, but I tried and made good progress.  Since the deadline is the 15th and today is the 11th, I know it won't happen.

I lost a low end VPS, but I didn't really expect to keep it.  If I expect real business from that quarter, I have to structure something especially to grab that business.  I'm not sure this is worth pursuing, and I don't want to set down any further thoughts on that here.

I have two more VPSes I hope to bill for in August.  One had a hurdle to solve involving migrations from the main cluster.  I think I've solved that, so it'll be okay.  The other is just a matter of the client dragging his feet, so I have to make some calls.  There's a possible third one, too, but it's only an outside chance.  I had written this one off as "no go" but he's still sometimes writing to me, so all hope is not lost.

Also on the agenda for this month is a possible "new" server being shipped to the DC.  I'll be managing the server for the owner, and integrating it into my H-Sphere cluster.  I'm not sure this will happen in August, either.

bashful progress - 57 sites to go

There's no real hope for getting bashful shut down this month, but enough progress has been made that I have high hopes of getting it shut down in time for September 15th.  The trouble ticket from Parallels is still open, but they appear to have resolved the issues.  In retrospect, I think that in view of the solution they found, they should have gotten to this earlier, but that's water under the bridge.

They basically fixed an FTP configuration in Site Studio that was preventing the site owner from publishing on the new server, and reset the quota on both machines.  This resolved the two main basic issues preventing migrations.  I've had several migrations since then that were totally successful.  I know most of the gotchas, which include:

• mail not being migrated properly, requiring manual intervention
• some imports need to be run twice due to path changes in X11
• 32 bit to 64 bit issues in moving PHP sites...including copying libraries and adjusting php.ini
• sometimes some other minor stuff needs to be done
• MySQL quick fix
• will need to modify any oscommerce sites which move from mysql4 to mysql5, usually a "simple" fix, but sometimes nasty with some variants of that software
• need to double check index.html if that's the default page, because on the "double import" sites, it's not always overwriting the default ensim page

Still open is some Site Studio compatibility issues.  I hope this doesn't become a big thing. In at least one case, the publishing of the site blew away the left index.

Still to do on the migration that requires special attention:

• move a site with special FTP / user / permissions issues
• move alsonetworks.com
• move support.alsonetworks.com (and upgrade)
• since bashful is a primary DNS this information will have to go somewhere
• at least one client needs to be in on every move
• back up any data NOT in a web site to grumpy somewhere

migrating!

As amazing as it may seem, it looks like at least the quota problem has been solved, and I've been migrating sites.  There are fewer than 60 sites on the server now.

The Site Studio issue is at least partly solved as well; I can publish changes.  There are still some compatibility issues I have to try to resolve.  But for now I am happily migrating.