As you probably know, I host websites as a side hobby to keep myself busy. If you didn’t know, I host websites through http://www.matthouse.us.
Over the past few years, I have hosted on the OpenVZ platform (Virtual Private Server). I started out with lxadmin and moved my way up to cpanel accounts for my clients due to many problems with lxadmin. After a lot of newly formed concerns about security after noticing hacking attempts, I have attempted to tighten my server, however openvz has presented many challenges while performing these tasks. At first, I was recording 20 to 30 hack attempts per day to my main webserver (mthsweb1.matthouse.us), and this was totally unacceptable to me. I have tightened that server down but am finding that my server is much slower than it once was and I was forced to find a better solution. This is why I’ve decided to migrate my entire customer base to a new server running on the Virtuozzo platform which is much more stable, secure and less of a pig when it comes to memory consumption.
Within the next couple of weeks, I hope to contact everyone and migrate every website over to the new server completely. I will personally verify each site is completely transferred with minimal to no downtime as possible. To all of my customers, I would like to thank you for your continued support. Your support helps me learn new techniques to managing servers and providing appropriate customer service!
One additional note, I promise that I will have a photo gallery up by next weekend! Have a great Martin Luther King day!
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