I just moved my little cloud server to a new and more spacious virtual private server. I’m always surprised how fast files can be copied between cloud providers.
I spent the last few months shopping around looking for a good inexpensive hosting option billed in CAD and located in Canada, eventually settling on ServaRica in Montreal. It took me two weekends to get everything moved over. This is a personal server so there is nobody to complain if a service is down for a bit.
Why move? A few reasons,
I want to be billed in CAD, this option is not available on Linode.
I want a place to try running a NetBird server. (requires 2 GB RAM)
I may also put up an OnlyOffice collaborative editing server. (requires 4 GB RAM)
The new Virtual Private Server:
- ServaRica: V2 KVM Slim Slice 2 – https://servarica.com/plan/611/ (sold out)
- $9.00 CAD + tax per month ($10.68 CAD per month)
- 8 GB RAM
- 2 CPU Cores
- 250 GB SSD
- Unlimited bandwidth @ 250 Mbps + 1 Mbps/day up to 1 Gbps
- Montreal, Canada
Moving from:
- Linode: Nanode 1 GB – https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing/north-america#container-5f6592f923
- $5.00 USD per month (currently $8.29 CAD per month)
- 1 GB RAM
- 1 CPU Core
- 25 GB SSD
- 1 TB bandwidth @ 1 Gbps (I never came anywhere near this limit)
- Toronto, Canada
The major steps:
- connectivity
- firewall
- docker
- containers
- web sites
- backup old server filesystem
- delete old server
- fix up any remaining configurations.