Silly Butterfly startblad / SBGs.nl / Erbenet.nl

Hip hooray! The first domain has been officially migrated!

It's going well! I must say, to my considerable surprise and rather great relief. I migrated some sites in the transition from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 and that was a migraine experience. Now it's going perfectly. Saved and downloaded the database from the source site. Then uploaded that database dump to the new server. To be precise: on the new VPS, I gave the command within MySQL to import a database dump. Whizz... done! Yes, then you're not there yet... So I went over it a few times until I got the right order:

Last night I was busy installing software on the Strato-VPS until (too) late. My strategy is first Apache2, Drupal8, and MySQL, and then try to make a website. That works! In these cases, I always start with Webmin, which gives me control over all kinds of settings on the server from a browser. It all works... and very fast!

Today I spent a few hours installing and testing the Hostnet VPS. But meanwhile, it starts to gnaw. The Hostnet subscription is indeed € 1,- ex VAT. But that's only the first month, and after that, it jumps to €30 per month. That is a significant increase, compared to the € 35 per year I currently pay at Robohost. So I searched a little further... after all, Hostnet can be canceled per month. And then I end up with Strato. They also have an introductory offer of € 1,- per month.

OK. The die is cast and we have plucked enough courage. When looking for a suitable VPS hosting, I was guided by Google. Asked a question along the lines of "what is the cheapest good VPS hosting?" That's how I ended up at Hostnet, which has an introductory offer of € 1,- per month. That is an amount that I can spare, so I ordered a VPS, in the most extensive version available for that amount. 8GB of Ram, 4 CPU cores, 25GB of disk space. You can choose your OS from a number of Linux variants.

Liberation Day! (The Netherlands celebrates every May 5th that the country was liberated from German occupation at the end of World War II.) Time to liberate ourselves from a dilemma. The problem is clear: I make the vast majority of websites with the Drupal CMS. That is now on version 8, while version 9 is being worked on. The latter means that support for version 7 will soon come to an end. That in itself poses a problem for us because we have not yet succeeded in building the webshop in Drupal 8.

If someone says of another that he was "a bit stupid" that other person can still become king. Everyone is "a little stupid" sometimes, right?

With a great sense of relief I completed the migration of the website ajna.erbenet.nl tonight. It certainly wasn't a "classic migration" along the lines of exporting the website, switching to the new environment, and then importing the website again. It kept crashing with errors. Finally, all nodes from the old sites were converted manually (i.e. via the "source code" button). That took a lot of time and aggravation. But it worked!