Bye bye, old server

I have just executed my main web server - I watched it destroy itself on my command, before shutting down for good. Faithful to the end.

This means that I have now finished the move from the old web server to the new one, and I'm pleased to report that I seem to have completed the transition with minimal disruption for client sites.

I used nginx on the new server as a remote proxy, pointing at the old server. I then changed the DNS and waited for the caches to update, before locking the user-changeable areas for a few minutes while I copied the databases over. I then switched the nginx config to point at the local site, and switched servers almost seamlessly - most sites were only locked for a minute or two. Sufficient.

I was more lazy with my personal sites, hence some downtime on here earlier, and there are still a couple left to configure; I'll leave them showing the holding page until tomorrow, as I'm off to bed. Night!

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