From a performance perspective, websrv05 has been great for us. That said, I knew it would be a relatively short run on it, given that it is running the CentOS 7 Linux operating system, which is officially end-of-life in June 2024.
Today, I am announcing our upcoming migration to websrv06!
Like its predecessor, websrv06 is super fast (40 CPU cores, 128 GB of RAM, and 4 TB of RAID 1 storage). It runs PHP 8.3 and MariaDB 10.11 for excellent website security and performance, and it is running the latest version of Plesk 18 for a great web hosting management experience.
The migration of accounts will start this week and will be finished by the end of April. Once the migration of your account is complete, I will send you an email notification to let you know.
As with our last migration, you should not notice much or any downtime during the migration process.
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Known Issues
Annoying Could not issue/renew Lets Encrypt certificates Emails
Once your account has been migrated, you may receive Lets Encrypt notifications with the subject of “Could not issue/renew Lets Encrypt certificates.” These are sent from the old server and can safely be ignored. They may continue until all domains have been migrated; I am sorry for any inconvenience.
Incoming/Outgoing Mail Server Changes
Some people have had to set their incoming/outgoing mail server in their email client (e.g., Outlook, Thunderbird) to websrv05.digitalorphans.org to avoid TLS certificate errors. If this is you, you will have to change your incoming/outgoing mail server to websrv06.digitalorphans.org.
This issue will not affect most people, as most have correctly set their incoming/outgoing mail servers to their domain name (e.g., silentweb.ca, mattsimpson.ca).
Websites Requiring PHP 7.4
Unfortunately, PHP 7.4 is way past end-of-life and will not be supported on websrv06. We will be transitioning all sites to PHP 8.3 during the migration process. This change may negatively impact some older PHP-based websites. If you notice any issues with your PHP-based website, please feel free to let me know, and I will try to help you.