Switched VPS Host

As some of you might have noticed, the main site was down for a about week whilst waiting for my host to perform node hardware upgrades. My VPS with them is still (mostly) down and their support team hasn't given any indication on when the services will be restored. To their credit they did ask everyone to make backups before the maintenance window.

Since the hardware upgrade is taking too long, I decided to transfer everything over to a spare VPS setup as follows:-

• Debian 6.0 Squeeze 64bit + LNMP multi-user script
• Nginx 1.0 + PHP-FPM from unstable repo
• MySQL from testing repo

As the VPS only has 96MB RAM, using Nginx over Apache seems most appropriate. I intentionally deployed the "unstable" LNMP script just to see how long such a setup can last before breaking :p But knowing Debian's overly strict packaging ecosystem, it'd probably be a while before anything bad happens.

The setup with fail2ban running consumes 65MB, which is pretty comfortable for the traffic its getting.

Cheers to those who emailed to let me know about the site being down, and thanks for the patience!

On a somewhat (un)related note...

• The multi-user scripts have been tidied up a little and re-uploaded.
• Updated the documentation to assume multi-user setup. Should be even more beginner friendly now.