Last night, I moved e-mail service to the new hosted server. That was more or less painless. The only grief I caused myself was in upgrading Postfix as part of the process, which rendered my version of one of the configuration files incompatibly old. Once I figured that out, all was well.
Since I run the Cyrus IMAP server on the back-end, I’d been forwarding my own personal e-mail off to a separate server that does traditional spool delivery, since that’s how I like to read and manage my own mail. The goal now, however, was complete independence from my DSL line, so I had to move away from this model and consolidate spool delivery with the database-driven Cyrus model. I completed this work this afternoon.
With that, caliban.org is now completely independent of my Speakeasy DSL line. It has good bandwidth and is hopefully more or less immune to power blackouts. Reverse DNS has been set up and I have new secondary DNS servers for the domain, as the previous ones had been somewhat unreliable.
Only a few stragglers are still hitting the Web site at the old address. They’re given an HTTP 301 to send them to the new server. Within a few days, those should completely dry up.
I’m glad to have all of this out of the way before the baby arrives, as there will be precious little time available once he’s here.
Hopefully, those of you who’ve struggled with viewing our photos in the past will enjoy the increase in speed. Multi-megapixel photos should now load a lot more quickly.