Server Plesk Upgrade

[JRS]

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]

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.

 

[Charles Pegge]

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]

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. 

[JRS]

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.

[Charles Pegge]

Good luck!

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

[JRS]

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.

[JRS]

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]

Please refrain from posting anything new until I update this thread when I have the site on the new server.

[JRS]

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]

Thanks, John.

All working fine. The backup takes about 4 seconds!

[JRS]

Great!

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

[JRS]

The old AWS Plesk 12 server instance has been shutdown. 

[Charles Pegge]

Yes, everything is operational, including webmail.

[JRS]

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.