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JRS

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Server Plesk Upgrade
« on: July 28, 2018, 01:36:44 PM »
I plan on upgrading the AWS EC2 instance tonight of Plesk 12 to Onyx 17. If all goes well, the forum shouldn't be down too long.

JRS

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Re: Server Plesk Upgrade
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2018, 02:26:09 AM »
Well that was scary!

I created a snapshot of my instance as a backup before doing the Plesk upgrade and when I restarted the instance again we were back to Oct. 2017 on all sites.  :'(

Luckily the CTO of Plesk is a friend and only a DM away from help from the top. I was able to create a new instance from the snapshot.

I never did get to the Plesk upgrade. Enough excitement for one night.

 
« Last Edit: July 29, 2018, 02:35:32 AM by John »

Charles Pegge

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Re: Server Plesk Upgrade
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2018, 02:53:30 AM »
Thanks, John.

Your precautions paid off, and the moral is to always be wary of upgrades.

My HP Pavilion laptop got a dodgy Intel graphics driver upgrade which slightly distorted OpenGL graphics, and made object-picking almost impossible. This must have affected millions of Laptops. We had to wait 6 months for the next driver.

JRS

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Re: Server Plesk Upgrade
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2018, 03:37:47 AM »
Worse case is we would be restarting from May 9, 2018 from my offsite domain backups.

I would have lost a very important site I was working on as I hadn't backed it up yet.

I have never been more happy about going nowhere.  ;D

JRS

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Re: Server Plesk Upgrade
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2018, 08:53:09 PM »
I have setup a new AWS EC2 instance.


CPU        Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2676 v3 @ 2.40GHz (2 core(s))
Version  Plesk Onyx v17.8.11_build1708180301.19 os_CentOS 7
OS          CentOS Linux 7.5.1804 (Core)

I have already moved the OpenSage.org site and OxygenBasic.org will be the last to go when Charles is awake to test his Plesk control panel.

Update

I have scriptbasic.org running on the new server. My e-mail client doesn't seem to be working unless I send the message from webmail. (which seems to be working fine)

The Script BASIC wiki was screwed up which may be a PHP version issue. I reverted back to the old server for Script BASIC.

I will play with this again tomorrow.
« Last Edit: July 30, 2018, 11:26:12 PM by John »

Charles Pegge

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Re: Server Plesk Upgrade
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2018, 01:58:37 AM »
Good luck!

I hope it's worth all your efforts, (and toll on the nervous system!)

JRS

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Re: Server Plesk Upgrade
« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2018, 06:30:05 AM »
I need to get off Plesk 12 as it has reach its end of life. I also need to get the sites on HTTPS with Let's Encrypt certificates.
« Last Edit: July 31, 2018, 07:19:47 AM by John »

JRS

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Re: Server Plesk Upgrade
« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2018, 01:23:43 PM »
I will be moving the OxygenBasic site to the new server today.

I need to finish this as running two instances is going to get expensive.

JRS

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Re: Server Plesk Upgrade
« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2018, 06:59:17 PM »
Please refrain from posting anything new until I update this thread when I have the site on the new server.

JRS

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Re: Server Plesk Upgrade
« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2018, 07:59:07 PM »
OxygenBasic.org is now on  the new server.  :)

Charles,

Can try logging into you control panel but change hosting.clouds-r.us to 52.8.235.161 in the link.

Charles Pegge

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Re: Server Plesk Upgrade
« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2018, 12:01:28 AM »
Thanks, John.

All working fine. The backup takes about 4 seconds!

JRS

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Re: Server Plesk Upgrade
« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2018, 12:07:17 AM »
Great!

Did you check your webmail and an external client if you use one?

JRS

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Re: Server Plesk Upgrade
« Reply #12 on: August 01, 2018, 01:36:11 AM »
The old AWS Plesk 12 server instance has been shutdown.  :-*

Charles Pegge

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Re: Server Plesk Upgrade
« Reply #13 on: August 01, 2018, 06:40:54 AM »
Yes, everything is operational, including webmail.

JRS

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Re: Server Plesk Upgrade
« Reply #14 on: August 01, 2018, 04:46:25 PM »
All sites on the new server are now HTTPS with the Let's Encrypt certificates.

Let me know if you run into any problems under HTTPS with OxygenBasic.org.
« Last Edit: August 01, 2018, 05:30:55 PM by John »