dalydesign
Basic Pleskian
- Server operating system version
- Centos 6
- Plesk version and microupdate number
- 12.5
I'm looking at setting up a new server as we have 20+ small sites on an old Plesk 12.5 server. The old server is a 2.4ghz x 4 core Xeon, 16gb, 2x2TB HD with a 100Mb/s lan (server was set up in 2015). It’s mainly running low traffic Wordpress sites, a few bespoke PHP/MySQL sites (all via cloudflare) and mail for 200 mailboxes. our big customers are hosted elsewhere on managed VPS or Cloud hosting….sever runs fine, but occasionally slow during backups. Most sites are on PHP 7.2 with a few on 5.6 (these sites will have to be retired if the owners won’t pay to rebuild them) so we need to set up a new server with PHP 7.4 & 8
The new server I’m looking at is a 3.6ghz x 8 core, 64gb ram, 2x960gb NVMe (or 6 core, 32gb ram and 2x2tb HD), 1GB lan and a choice of OS’s.
the old Plesk is unsupported, and has been over customised with quite a few so I’m not expecting the domains to migrate successfully. Especially as the Plesk Wordpress mapping to each domain is broken.
So I have a few questions…
NVMe vs HD.… obviously theres a big speed difference on the likes of a laptop and PlayStation, but hosting wise is there much difference. I’ve had a NVMe fail on a MacBook Pro, several SSD’s and HD’s. So I was wondering what others thought with regards to hosting and reliability of the different drives.
Then there’s the OS… what would you all recommend as im assuming AlmaLinux 8 is the natural choice having already being on Centos and I find that very stable …or should I install Debian 11 or Ubuntu 22?
Then there’s auto-updates of plesk… in 12.5, I found it flakey. As often it would cause a crash due to a bug of some sort. Is it much more reliable?
Finally. Tech support, we’re paying Fasthosts monthly for plesk, but Fasthosts say that anything to do with plesk is not their remit as they are only responsible for the hardware. Does anyone know what tech support is available from Plesk should something go wrong.
Before we bite the bullet what are your thoughts on the above queries?
The new server I’m looking at is a 3.6ghz x 8 core, 64gb ram, 2x960gb NVMe (or 6 core, 32gb ram and 2x2tb HD), 1GB lan and a choice of OS’s.
the old Plesk is unsupported, and has been over customised with quite a few so I’m not expecting the domains to migrate successfully. Especially as the Plesk Wordpress mapping to each domain is broken.
So I have a few questions…
NVMe vs HD.… obviously theres a big speed difference on the likes of a laptop and PlayStation, but hosting wise is there much difference. I’ve had a NVMe fail on a MacBook Pro, several SSD’s and HD’s. So I was wondering what others thought with regards to hosting and reliability of the different drives.
Then there’s the OS… what would you all recommend as im assuming AlmaLinux 8 is the natural choice having already being on Centos and I find that very stable …or should I install Debian 11 or Ubuntu 22?
Then there’s auto-updates of plesk… in 12.5, I found it flakey. As often it would cause a crash due to a bug of some sort. Is it much more reliable?
Finally. Tech support, we’re paying Fasthosts monthly for plesk, but Fasthosts say that anything to do with plesk is not their remit as they are only responsible for the hardware. Does anyone know what tech support is available from Plesk should something go wrong.
Before we bite the bullet what are your thoughts on the above queries?