I spent around six hours today moving machinima.com over to a new host - and switching it from RedHat to Debian.

The setup was very straightforward. Mostly it was a matter of installing Apache, PHP, MySQL, Exim, and Mailman.

I'm still waiting for the DNS changes to propogate before the new home is live, but it looks like everything is good to go.

I like doing odd jobs like this for people, especially when I'm getting paid in DVDs! This job earnt me the DVD box sets of Buffy The Vampire Slayer series 5 and 6. (That works out at about ten pounds an hour).

I'll be on call for the next couple of days to make sure that nothing has broken and that the site is holding up well.

This makes the third server install/move/setup that I've done for Strange Company and one of the best so far. This time I went over to the owners house and did the magic whilst he watched and took notes.

Hopefully this will mean he'll feel comfortable making changes himself and can become self sufficient over time.