---
title: Moved To Vodien
date: 2011-01-03 03:02:40
permalink: https://lesterchan.net/blog/2011/01/03/moved-to-vodien/
author: Lester Chan
categories:
  - Site
tags:
  - FRRO
  - moved
  - Vodien
---

If you are seeing this blog post, it means the DNS has resolved correctly for you. I have moved the site from my dedicated server in Frro to a [VPS in Vodien](http://www.vodien.com/). I did it because I wanted to play with more Linux stuff. And if I did it on the dedicated server at Frro, it may screw some of the sites hosted there and may cause downtime for them which is a absolutely no-no.

In terms of control panel, previously I am using [DirectAdmin](http://www.directadmin.com/) and now on the VPS, I am using [CPanel](http://www.cpanel.net/). As CPanel is much more popular than DirectAdmin, there are tons of resources and tutorials available out there. I followed this tutorial, [Memcached and PHP with cPanel](http://wiki.beyondhosting.net/Memcached_and_PHP_with_cPanel), and got [memcached](http://memcached.org/) up and running within 15 minutes on the VPS!

CPanel allows the importing of a DirectAdmin account, however I did not make use of that. Rather, I use [Rsync](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync), to copy the files between servers and [mysqldump](http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysqldump.html) to dump the database from one server to another. I created the subdomains manually using CPanel and with regards to email accounts, I started afresh as I do not use my domain email for any purpose.

Once the above is done, I logged in to [namecheap](http://www.namecheap.com/) and change the IP for both NS1 and NS2 to point to this server’s IP address. Give it about 24 hours for the change to propagate and bingo!

I make a noob mistake of not updating my CDN provider, [NetDNA](http://www.netdna.com/), with the new IP and because of that I have wasted a few hours trying to figure out why all my CDN content are returning a 403 Forbidden error!

That basically sums up the migration plan I did to move this site from Frro to Vodien.