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Blog status: stable, after 48 hours

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Shifting blog to a new server went smooth without any major issues (i will write step by step instructions on how i did it on the next post). However there were times when my blog went down with server errors, as a result I had to delete everything and re-install it on a new database and with fresh wp files. This issue was caused by plugin called subscribe2, basically it was flooding the mail queue of pair.com.

Subscribe2 is a plugin that notifies people who have subscribed to be notified when there is new post on the blog. I am not sure if it indeed sent out emails to subscribed members, or was just overloading the server. If anyone received emails from AdesBlog.com during this installation, I sincerely apologize for it.

Good news is that, I am no longer using comment2 plugin anymore. So you don’t have to worry about anymore email problems.

This was the message I got from the support momentarily after the installation:

This script was launching numerous sendmail processes, driving load up on the server and flooding the mail queue with over 7,000 messages. Please review the usage policies on the following page…

Luckily, Pair has a 24/7 support team that monitors all the servers. They disabled the script and notified me about it. I quickly deleted everything and re-installed the blog without this plugin.

The source of the problem was not because of the “activation” of the plugin, but it was caused during the data transfer (posts, comments, various plugin data) from my goDaddy to new server. I guess somehow when transferring the data (inserting into db) the plugin started sending emails.

Other than this issue, overall process was fairly simple and straight-forward. Of course, it took sometime (24 or more) for all the DNS to update completely. During this DNS update, the blog was going back and front between the two versions: goDaddy version and Pair version.

In the beginning there were some plugins which were not activated yet, but their code was already in the blog theme. This might have caused the blog to run slower than its actual speed. Now all the plugins are activated and working correctly. So you should be seeing a better loading time after this. I have also implemented WP-Cache plugin, this should further improve the blog speed.

Overall, I am happy with the result and with my decision to change the hosting.

P.S Changing to new host allowed me to update my WordPress to 2.3.3 too, so that was a good thing.

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