Plesk Migration Manager (PMM)

Just to share my experience with this application. If you are migrating Plesk (8.x) to Plesk (8.x) (ie another server running plesk) and you have little space left on the /home (or /) hard disk partition on the source server.

You must also have a partition that has at least enough space to hold the /var/www/vhost content…

Plesk migration manager stores dumped file under /home/migration. To alleviate the risk of filling the / or /home partition do this:

rmdir /home/migration
ln -s {otherpartitiondir} /home/migration

where {otherpartitiondir} is a full path on the partition that has enough space.

Plesk is not really telling you where the stuff is stored (or I did not find it)

The Planet DC H1 Crash

The Planet Houston Datacenter 1 (US) or Server Farm 1 (GB) electrical power equipment blew last Saturday and this resulted in a catastrophic service interruption that is still felt today 🙁 we still face intermittent service but it is getting better.

The consequences of this accident, where no one was hurt, has made me rethink the security and vulnerability of the server we have there. We now are in the process of migrating to a new server in the UK and this should take a couple of days.