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Jul 16
Changing Puppet Masters
As users of puppet, occasionally we need to migrate nodes from one master to another. In my case I’m decommissioning my old puppet server having stood up a new one, as a part of my “migrate home” project. I ran into a couple of minor issues, but this is essentially the process for moving a …
May 31
Migrating Home
My “Personal Project” for a long time has been small web/mail hosting, primarily for myself. For the last year or more I’ve achieved this with a group of small VPS services. It started out back in 2008, I think, with a 256MB Xen machine, hosted by ezVPS (no longer in business). Eventually I picked up …
May 11
Test Case Web
[notice]FAIR WARNING: At time of writing, this software hadn’t been fully tested. During the tests I have found a large number of SQL injection issues with this code that I have patched on my system, and will continue to patch as I check over the package. In the next few days I’ll make a useful …
May 10
Moving MySQL Users and Databases
Occasionally, as part of my day-to-day duties, we migrate users from one shared hosting server to another. In general we use the cPanel/WHM “Transfer account” feature. On occasion, this doesn’t work quite right and manual interventions must be made. When the Transfer Account feature breaks a user account, it’s annoying. Usually most of the transfer …
May 10
Hello world!
It’s a startlingly appropriate title for this blog. Here’s the deal. I am a Jr. Systems Administrator. I work for a company that provides hosting services, anything from shared web-space to multiple-cabinets of colocation space. If you have a hosting need, chances are we can meet it. But this blog isn’t about my employer. It …