[Owncloud] website is down

[Ed W]

On 05/03/2013 12:48, Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> Guys,
>
> thanks a lot for the great suggestions.
> We already have a new server. We just have to move the website.

Please consider using virtualisation on the new server (if not already 
planned)

I use linux-vservers for my new systems and I'm really pleased (if you 
like something else then go for it, the point was to virtualise, not 
really discuss which virtualisation solution)

I now release nearly every website we run under a new vserver image. I 
use several base images as my starting points, eg one vanilla, one setup 
for web serving.  This makes it simple to update 20 virtual machines 
easily.  (I use gentoo so additionally I can sync settings across groups 
of machines and share binary packages across all machines - probably not 
relevant to many here though)

The upshot is that I can "bounce the server" in about 1-3 seconds and 
copying across to a new physical machine probably involves only a few 
seconds of downtime (less if you can use iptables).  It is so simple to 
move machines between physical hardware, test updates to machines before 
doing it to the live machine, cloning them for tests, etc

Good luck

Ed W