[plug] hosting

[Bret Busby]

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Gregory Orange wrote:

> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:15:42 +0800
> From: Gregory Orange <gregory.orange at rpsmetocean.com>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.org.au
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] hosting
> 
> Patrick Coleman wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Gregory
>> Orange<gregory.orange at rpsmetocean.com> wrote:
>> I'll take this opportunity to plug my company, Labyrinth Data
>> (http://ld.net.au) :)
>> It sounds like we could host your site on one of our shell plans, for
>> $11/month; we alternatively do virtual private servers starting at
>> $29/month. We currently offer a first-month-free promo to SAGE-AU
>> members, and we can probably do the same for PLUG members.
>
> Shameless self-plug welcome (: Thanks for some numbers which we can use to 
> compare (I don't yet know what's on offer from the site builder). I'm a SAGEr 
> and PLUGer, in fact I posted a similar message to both lists.
>
>
>> What you can do is take a dump of the database and tar up the site,
>> but leave the old site running (possibly in a read-only mode). Then
>> get the new site running, and change the DNS to point there. As the
>> DNS propagates (you can speed this up by reducing the TTL to eg. 10
>> minutes before you start) customers will seamlessly move to the new
>> site without downtime.
>> 
>> Obviously any database changes to the old site after you dump the
>> database won't be carried across; this may or may not be an issue for
>> you.
>
> Cool, that all makes sense which means I'm vaguely on the right track. I'll 
> need to understand DNS better later, but for now that's plenty. Thank you.
>
> Cheers,
> Greg.
>

Have a look at http://www.clickngo.com.au/hosting-web.html#bp50 and 
http://www.clickngo.com.au/hosting-web.html#bp100 , depending on how 
much you want.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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