Tonight we successfully moved the site from an outsourced hosting server to a more powerful, secure, and inexpensive solution in a local data center. There was almost no downtime. We put up a maintence screen for a few minutes. Site seems to be working fine on the new server and it’s faster.
Took us a few months to move the site because neither one of us knows a lot about setting up servers and hardware firewalls. Ran into lots of headaches so we finally hired someone to set up the hardware firewall and multiple IPs for us. Cost us $130. Money lost by not doing that in the first place? $750. Lesson learned.
Now it’s on to implementing video uploading, sharing, and viewing for our users.
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