I have until tonight midnight to transfer all my stuff (blog, website, mail server, etc..) to a new server.
It’s practically all done now (hopefully). For all the stuff that can be delayed, I’ve backed up everything an transferred the archives to a new server.
So I should be good to go.
The most painful part was with ldap and cyrus. Talked about on IRC, and people vehemently recommended that I switch do dovecot.
One of the most interesting thing that caught my eye was the possibility for having multiple mail servers simultaneously updating the mail depot.. Since my server provider doesn’t yet offer any kind of disk sharing solution such as SAN or iSCSI attachments, I came up with this :
Essentially, this would mean that a mail may arrive on any of the 2 systems. Since the file system is clustered, I can then retrieve it from any of the 2 systems.
The only thing I’m not sure about is how it would fare in the event of a failure on one of the systems – or worse, if they were to split, but still process messages (at which point I would have 2 distinct copies).