Server Migration
Posted on 02. Sep, 2008 by Sajith M.R in general
I was finding that my visitor count is increasing and alexa ranking of www.sajithmr.com is now well below 100,000
So I decided to change my old Cpanel hosting to a professional content delivery network who can provide me the scalability that www.sajithmr.com may demand in the future . After much research i ended up with PiCDN who provide affordable CDN service
The following are the changes that the new hosting offers me:
They use a different web server than apache . I found that it was nginx and it seems its the rising star in web servers
I dumped my old cpanel mail to Google Mail for domains – Picdn integrates it with fully and it got only minutes to get me running 
I have ssh access to my account !. Occassionally i can do cleanup jobs and have more flexibility than a FTP account. Besides picdn people claim it more secure
These are their features (copied from http://www.picdn.com)
- Highly scalable hosting infrastructure
- Asynchronous web server
- Geo-distributed fault tolerant nameservers
- PHP ready
- Dedicated fine tuned MySQL database server
- Geo-aware redirection of users to the nearest cache/node
- SFTP /SSH/RSYNC publishing access
- Allows plugging in of other Application servers and content processing servers
- Google Mail for Domains Ready
I am fully satisfied with my new host and plan to move over http://www.amvizone.com to them soon
So Sajithmr.com is now in new server with new design (home page only ), have a look at: http://www.sajithmr.com
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