As most of you probably noticed the blog was down a every now and then the last few days. This is because we moved the blog once more.
I just didn’t like the restricted environment of a shared hosting account with CPanel, so I have switched the blog over to a Cloud VPS on the Rackspace Cloud
Now after setting up the blog on this new server we encountered a problem, We were going into deep swap usage on the server, meaning it would basically lockp-up entirely.
So after discovering this I went to research on how to resolve this and eventually made the switch from Apache with PHP as a module to nginx with PHP-FPM.
It still requires some tweaking but behaves a lot better compared to apache, especially now PHP isn’t loaded to handle static files.
I’ve also uploaded a shiny clean install of wordpress, meaning all wordpress files are in their original form and all plugins have been reinstalled and reactivated.
All that remains now is to get IntenseDebate to behave itself again, now waiting for it to import the comments.
Well that’s it for today, onto another long period of uninterrupted blog uptime galore.
~Xeross
