Server Move

If any of you noticed, my blog and some of the sites that the server hosts were down on Sunday morning. My company got sick of Netmyne’s horrible service. The network connection at Netmyne (as someone put it) goes up and down as often as a human eats rice. No, I don’t mean those stupid girls who tulang rusuk can see also want to diet.

So a whole batch of webhosting providers decided to ditch Netmyne and move to Jaring’s IDC in Bukit Jalil. Me being one of them. Drove to Cyberjaya in the morning and brought the server to Bukit Jalil. About 150km drive in total.

I smiled as we reached Jaring’s datacenter building. It looks very nice. The whole front is like black glass, with a scanner that seems to provide options for MyKad or fingerprint access. As the front door isn’t used on weekends, we used the side entrance to get it.

As I stepped into the building, I expected to have to climb up a few flights of stairs but instead I saw the stairs going downwards! Yes, Jaring’s IDC is 2 floors underground. Cool. Hooked the server up. Had a few minor problems because we were assigned the wrong IP address. Should have guessed when the gateway IP doesn’t seem to be in the range of the IP and netmask that was assigned to me. Informed my colocation provider and everyone was like “oh shit, oh shit, oh shit”. Had to change IP addresses for every single machine that was moved over from Cyberjaya. I had to sit on the floor with a notebook and edit my DNS zonefiles one by one changing all the IP address and incrementing the serial number.

At night, did some speed tests with Doubleukay. Managed to transfer files from Netmyne Cyberjaya to Jaring’s Bukit Jalil at speeds up to 7M/s. That’s about 60 megabits. Heck, that’s better than what I was achieving with speed tests from one rack to another in the same building!

This led me to suspect the bad performance on my segment at Netmyne all this while was because of a certain web hosting company providing super cheap prices, unlimited bandwidth and hosting alot of anime-related sites. Shall not mention which company that is.

Had a few hiccups due to the last minute change of IP address. DNS resolution was fucked due to the old IPs being cached by nameservers around the world. But as of today, everything seems to be okay. I hope Jaring’s performance will be better than Netmyne’s. I’ve seriously tried almost every single datacenter around. I’ve tried NTT MSC. I’ve tried Myloca. I’ve tried Netmyne. That’s just about almost everything with good bandwidth in Cyberjaya.

Jaring’s tech people have always appeared to be more competent to me. Hopefully, that’s a good sign.