MediaTemple Dedicated Virtual Server 3.0

I just finished the migration from Mediatemple’s (dv) Dedicated Virtual server 2.0 to 3.0 and it actually wasn’t all that bad. Andy and I run about 17 domains for 8 clients out of our current virtual server and I was concerned that things would break and we would have to go into disaster recovery mode…but I trudged on through anyways and surprisingly emergency actions were not necessary. haha.

Anyways, the new upgrade is great, consisting of hard drive upgrades, memory upgrades, product/component upgrades, and a $50.00/monthly price reduction. Plesk 8.1 is far more robust, with the ability to backup individual clients/domains and allows for scheduled backups and log rotations.

The migration path we followed is detailed in the MediaTemple Knowledge Base and went without a hitch. One caveat; however, is that the articicle in the KB recommends backing up one client at a time if you are over 50% hard drive utilization on your old server. We were at 65% utilization and did the full migration, against the advice of MediaTemple. It worked out fine. We only had one minor issue and it was with utf8 character sets in MySQL. The offending databases were easily fixed by switching to “latin1″.

Thanks MediaTemple — you guys are the best!