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I'm not sure I understand why you would have a long-running VPS that you need to manually upgrade. Just build a new one with all of the system upgrades already
by simonhamp 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand why you would have a long-running VPS that you need to manually upgrade.
Just build a new one with all of the system upgrades already in place and switch everything over... surely that's easier and safer?
- dangero 5y agoIs this a joke? And if not can you give a longer description of how this is easily done? How do you transfer all configuration to the new system and how often are you doing this?
- simonhamp 5y agoNo not a joke. I've done this many times. Use a server image as the base which uses the latest version of the OS and core packages and then have your own custom install scripts that initialise the new server with the elements you need from the latest versions. Getting those scripts right is the key part. Once these are set up, standing up new servers and burning old ones is a cinch. Anything that's not in a repo or package needs to live off-server, possibly in a cloud