I've done a few of them so far. Redking is now running on a shiny new mobo/proc combo, has 2 GB of ram, and much more drive space for the home & web directories. Also, I got a DVI video card so I can use my KVM to look at the server. Before this, I only had text access.
For all my bitching on this blog, things are definitely getting easier. This move was pretty much a drop in, even though I screwed up on the hardware order. I didn't notice that the new mobo had only 1 IDE controller, and redking had 3 IDE drives (not counting the DVD drive). So, I had to get a SATA drive and move some things over. I'll eventually have to move one more drive over to SATA so I can use the DVD drive for upgrades, but that's done later.
Even having to move the drives and install a new OS on the SATA drive, it was pretty easy. I've got my process streamlined with backups of essential files. I just drop what I need in the right places and away I go.
I've still got some more security twiddling to do. I've discovered some other security software I'm playing with, and I'm going to move a few more things over.
All in all, my backups performed well, moving the drives was easy, and I'm very happy with the switch.
Posted by flynn at October 11, 2007 2:01 PM