Moving the mail from home to the Google hosted service really has made my daily and weekly admin easier.
The main thing that’s changed is the amount of spam and the infrastructure needed to manage it:
The last few spam coming in are for the non-switched domains – they’ll be switched over at the end of this week.
I finally moved the mail service to Google Apps.
I looked long and hard; and even thought about moving the mail to a hosted environment for a few months.
Finally I tested out the google hosted email service – and it looks pretty good.
On the positives:
The only downsides are around:
At the end of the day this frees up two servers running multiple services; and saves me the backup and availability headaches.
It should also give family a better experience (webmail/POP to a google datacenter rather than to my server) and give me more bandwidth to play with.
This was released at the end of last week – and it’s running on one of my blogs (this one – www.evilzenscientist.com)
Still running 2.3.x on the others – mainly for the Gallery 2 integration plugin WPG2.
WPG2 is a great plugin, ozgreg and capt_kirk have done a great job of making the join between the blogging and photo gallery worlds. Apparantly some heavy lifting is needed to integrate with WP2.5.
One of the things I get to plan is moving the IT infrastructure. Pulling the plugs and moving the servers is the easy part; but what about the DSL, static IP, mail, MX records, DNS..
I think I’ve found a solution for the mail (hosting the mail server) and the DNS is already moved out and re-hosted on two different DNS servers. Might be just web-mail for a week or so – but that’s more than enough.
The blogs and photos will be offline while the servers are on the move – the rest of the infrastructure is just internal stuff; NAS, print, authentication etc.
Any hints and tips from those that have moved SLES and Windows 2003 servers before?
Slowly but surely moving towards general availability.
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