I recently swapped servers, as my old one was running Ubuntu 14.04, I decided to just swap out the server completely to Ubuntu 20.04, port the data… hence the recent rsync post.
The process was simple:
- create new server
- setup apache (vhosts), mysql, php, etc…
- firewall rules should be the same, so you could use the same security group. A review should be done.
- rsync data over
- export database
- I did a smoke test, by editing my hosts file to point to the new server.
- install software
- restore data/backups.
- unbind/detach IP from old server
- repeat for new server.
- bind/attach old IP to new server
- Setup SSL certificates if you haven’t already.
Now, my old server, didn’t allow for IPv6… the new one did.
Create a new AAAA record, @/lloydleung.com to the IPv6 address.
I did have a mistake somewhere, where I created an “A” record for the www.lloydleung.com. I changed that to a C record, where www points to @.
Now when something tries to go to “www.lloydleung.com”, either IPv4 or IPv^, it looks up “lloydleung.com”, with the corresponding A or AAAA record.
Set your TTLs to something low, until you know it won’t change.
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