I am in the process of upgrading (actually replacing) the server now. The old one is full and overloaded as well as outdated and has lots of misconfiguration since it was my first ever production server setup (so I didn\’t know much about things I was actually doing) and then I didn\’t have much time to fix things up.
Since I got a new HP Compaq ML110 (G3) machine I started to slowly moving to it. Hopefully I will finish with the transfer in a week and things will get much better.
Job Done:
- Mail server moved (using Exim as MTA and Dovecot for IMAP). I have set up maildirs instead of mailboxes this time and I see the great improvement in speed and resource consumption now.
- Web server is partially moved (some of the web-sites are not here yet)
- MySQL server is partially moved (again, not all of the databases are here)
To Be Done:
- Finish with Web server and MySQL
- Move FTP
- Move Samba (domain controller role) with all the relative stuff
- Some additional configurations
Improvements:
- The overall hardware is now much better
- Capacity of the new server is more than 3 times bigger
- Fresh software (the old machine was outdated and I could not update it a lot because of a mess around. And I was too lazy to fix the mess)
- Better configuration and arrangements of the stuff.
to be continued…