Transfer and Hosting of Live 50 GB site - The "Tale of the Tape"

Ken Rich
Ken Rich
@ken-rich
9 years ago
926 posts
I am on the Jamroom hosting now. The switch-over of my live site ( http://indiegospel.net ) was relatively easy and uneventful.

I had my maintenance screen up for 20-30 minutes while we re-issued and installed the SSL certificate and the DNS resolved. Had to remap my profile domains as well, to the new server. (eg. http://kenrich.me )

Live speed tests outperform my old server by roughly 50-150 points (and it had 8 cores and 8 GB of Ram). New scores are generally high 900's on average, breaking 1000 occasionally.

This is on a "live" fully loaded 50 GB site, with almost all currently available JR modules running.

Sometimes at the old host, my performance dropped down to the 300 range (even worse when there were rare issues like cron jobs stuck). Since I am not sharing the JR Hosting resources with other users, I should be able to get consistent high speeds, and so far that's what every test shows.

Also, as a test of the conversion server, I converted a 257 MB WMV file in 608.29 seconds.

In addition, I was very pleased to discover I can redirect a domain from Go Daddy, to a stored HTML website folder, and have a working website (which isn't a JR5), running from the JR Hosting server.

An example is http://indiegospelradio.org which is a multipage radio station. It is running from JR hosting and not through profile domain mapping.

Though extremely simple, the procedure I'm using is not supported (so don't try this at home kids - lol).
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Ken Rich
indiegospel.net

updated by @ken-rich: 03/25/15 10:17:25PM
Strumelia
Strumelia
@strumelia
9 years ago
3,603 posts
Great news Ken! I'm really happy so far with the JR hosting server as well.


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Ken Rich
Ken Rich
@ken-rich
9 years ago
926 posts
Strumelia:
Great news Ken! I'm really happy so far with the JR hosting server as well.

Yup...It's fast and one has peace of mind with the VIP support.

Even though my friend's server would hit in the 900's (when working right and not overloaded), I would drop to the 300's several times a day, depending on what demand was being placed by other sites.

Then there were rare times when server cron jobs got stuck (or some other tech issue surfaced). My network would become too slow to be unusable. Performance tests under 100 to under 10. Times like that it would take forever just to save a picture or complete a log-in.

In order to avoid frustrating my members, I was forced on occasion to put up a maintenance screen until the host resolved his tech issues. Therefore, I am quite happy to have "CONSISTANT" high speed.


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Ken Rich
indiegospel.net
brian
@brian
9 years ago
10,148 posts
Ken Rich:
The switch-over of my live site ( http://indiegospel.net ) was relatively easy and uneventful.

My favorite type of eventful is "uneventful" :)

Glad the transfer went well Ken - thanks for posting!


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Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
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