Daily Technical

So I am about to begin migration for my company from host “A” to host “B”. This is not a co-lo setup, we are moving to a fully managed hosting environment. During this process (which began months ago) I’ve found a lack of documentation around migrating between hosting vendors. I found this surprising (unless I’m just not looking in the right places) considering that our setup is fairly common. Dozens of websites, a handful of 3rd party developers and of course, a handful of various server configurations dependent upon the application running on it. I have, however, found that certain small companies specialize in specific aspects of a hosting move, such as ensuring that all of your SQL DB’s are properly transferred and fully accounted for. But I have found no one that looks at the big picture.

I’m fully willing, able and have the staff in place to manage the migration in house (which is the road I’ve chosen) , but it would be reassuring to find a ‘checklist’ of sorts that confirms that we have thoroughly thought through all of the facets of the move. Would love to know if anyone has come across this sort of thing.

If all goes well - and I’m confident that it will - maybe I’ll post the list here if there is any interest…

So, I’m a n00b. Up until now, I’ve never had a reason or believed that there was a purpose for me to start a blog. Let’s face it, who would really want to read about what some unknown yoyo has to say? A recent change in jobs has prompted me to revisit this decision and I have come up with what I think are 2 valid reasons for me to start blogging:

1. I’m responsible for Web Ops for an online travel company. As I’m sure oodles of people are well aware, there are more travel blogs around the web than you can shake a passport at. I think it is worthwhile for me to understand more about participating in blogging culture in order to transfer this experience to my current job responsibilities.

2. Again, I am responsible for Web Operations. In the last month or so, I’ve come to realize that there aren’t a lot of Web Ops specific blogs / sites / conferences around, that don’t focus primarily around programming or setting up the most kick ass Apache server (not that there’s anything wrong with that!). But I would like to see if this blog can essentially tap into a what I would think is an existing pool of people in a position similar to mine that are looking to share and promote thoughts, ideas and information about running their respective companies website operations - more from an infrastructure planning and day to day management perspective rather than hands on coder and sysadmin.

So that’s it. My first blog post on my first blog. Whew…