Datacenter Migration, Relocation, and New Ventures
Posted by Tim Galyean in Random on Sep 2nd, 2011
As many of you know I have decided to shift gears and accept a position with Silicon Valley startup Ning. With this transition I am migrating all of my websites back over to linode. As a previous customer of linode I know that their service is reliable and they provide all of the features that an experienced I.T. professional is looking for including IPv6.
Over the next few day’s I will be updating my servers to have IPv6 compatibility and networking which will give me the ability to host this blog in IPv4 as well as IPv6 address space. Following these updates I will document some of the changes required to start using IPv6 as well as how to configure apache virtual hosts to serve traffic over an IPv6 interface.
[root@www ~]# dig AAAA h1tman.com ; <<>> DiG 9.7.0-P2-RedHat-9.7.0-5.P2.el6_0.1 <<>> AAAA h1tman.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 3229 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;h1tman.com. IN AAAA ;; ANSWER SECTION: h1tman.com. 3600 IN AAAA 2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fe93:eb17 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: h1tman.com. 3600 IN NS ns23.domaincontrol.com. h1tman.com. 3600 IN NS ns24.domaincontrol.com. ;; Query time: 235 msec ;; SERVER: 74.207.241.5#53(74.207.241.5) ;; WHEN: Fri Sep 2 09:53:03 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 108 [root@www ~]#
So why the change of pace? Well, thats a complicated question to ask but here are some highlights.. Ning employ’s some of the most technical, and well known people in the industry. With that in mind (and a new environment) this provides an excellent opportunity to learn new technologies, expand upon experience, learn new way’s of implementing, deploying, and maintaining software and infrastructure as well as meeting new people.
By now you may have asked yourself “what does ‘ning’ do?”. Well, basically we provide a social networking platform that empowers the non-technical bloggers, businesses, and people who enjoy social networking an easy platform to design and maintain their own social network without the overhead of an IT department and developers. Bored and got time to surf the net? Visit our site: http://www.ning.com/
