Whats up with Hatim!

One year ago I bought my first hosting plan. This year I decided that I needed more, so went to choose a VPS. This is my first experience with a VPS. I asked around of freenode and settled for Linode.com (although tettonic.net and slicehost.com were also  options). Linod has a very well setup site and has a irc channel as well. I first installed CentOS as my  linux server image, but then decided to go with Ubuntu instead. It is much easier to find packages on Ubuntu as compared to CentOS.

I used this tutorial to get my self rails 2.0. I jsut got backups from my RailsPlayground server through mysqldump utiliy and have this blog running in parallel. Before I go to sleep today I will point the nameserver from Godaddy to my new server so by the time my service at RailsPlayground expires I still have a running website.

I still have to do the following with my new site, here is the laundy list

• Get all my mail and fix up an IMAP server.
• Copy and setup subdomains which were present on my previous site,
• Get my site an Nginx or Lighttpd permanent server.
• Get my previous home page back.
• Post list of links, which were useful in my migration.
  

I just love the idea that I finally have my own  (virtual) machine with which I can play.Edit: I also used the following tutorial to tweak up my mongrel installation.

Edit: I also used the following links to tweak up my installation
Ubuntu Gutsy - Nginx vhosts, rails and mongrels
Ubuntu Gutsy - mongrel clusters and surviving a reboot

Edit: I also used the following links to setup PHP-FCGI
Setup nginx for php and rails on Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10
NginX, PHP, FastCGI