{"id":1236,"date":"2012-08-12T10:07:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T14:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.deadsquid.com\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2012-08-12T10:07:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T14:07:03","slug":"deadsquid-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2012\/08\/12\/deadsquid-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadsquid Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one will really care about this but me, but that&#8217;s ok, I need to get in the habit of using this thing again. <\/p>\n<p>The dedicated server that&#8217;s continued on something like 14 years of hosting for friends and family is entering it&#8217;s final days. I&#8217;ve been moving sites over, and am hoping <a href=\"http:\/\/coop.deadsquid.com\/\">coop<\/a> is paying attention to his email. I ended up going with a Canadian firm for a VPS provider, and the experience so far has been pretty painless. <\/p>\n<p>The biggest issue I&#8217;ve run into was slow MySQL response time, and I spent most of yesterday reading up on tuning and tweaking my.cnf. I wish I had read all this stuff about 5 years ago, as a lot of lights were turned on with regards to perf on cthulhu; I could have saved myself a lot of pain by changing about 10 lines. Thankfully I&#8217;m never too old to learn.<\/p>\n<p>All mail services on cthulhu have been migrated, and everything else gets shut down at the end of August. I think everyone&#8217;s ready. It&#8217;s been fun, but I won&#8217;t miss it, and the VPS will be about 20% of the cost of a dedicated box with performance that appears to be at least comparable.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re using deadsquid for anything and haven&#8217;t heard from me regarding migration, you should drop me a line sooner rather than later. Two more weeks and everything&#8217;s gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one will really care about this but me, but that&#8217;s ok, I need to get in the habit of using this thing again. The dedicated server that&#8217;s continued on something like 14 years of hosting for friends and family is entering it&#8217;s final days. I&#8217;ve been moving sites over, and am hoping coop is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-family","category-good-to-know","category-hwsw","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}