{"id":1116,"date":"2020-03-03T19:48:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T19:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2020-03-03T19:48:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T19:48:05","slug":"server-migration-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/03\/03\/server-migration-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Server Migration Complete!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In January I had a notification from my VPS (Virtual Private Server) provider OVH, telling me that the VPS platform mine was hosted on was being retired on April 30th 2020. They offered 6 months free on the newer platform but migration had to be done manually. This pissed me off beyond belief because I know what&#8217;s involved with a full server migration!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a slight issue with setting up the replacement to start with but that was quickly resolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been putting it off for a while, deliberately waiting until this week because I&#8217;m off work. So this week arrives and I have little choice due to time constraints but now I face another problem: I feel like shit!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t straightforward. I didn&#8217;t expect it to be straightforward, but I solved all the issues that gave me some severe headaches and now the migration is (provisionally) complete. This is coming from the new server! It took over 7 hours!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m keeping the old one active for now, until I&#8217;m happy this migration is really complete and I haven&#8217;t missed something in the process. Now where&#8217;s that LemSip?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January I had a notification from my VPS (Virtual Private Server) provider OVH, telling me that the VPS platform mine was hosted on was being retired on April 30th 2020. They offered 6 months free on the newer platform &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/03\/03\/server-migration-complete\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}