Cloud Migration
Started: 2021-08-25 08:16:27
Submitted: 2021-08-25 08:28:43
Visibility: World-readable
If you're reading this post, I'd like to welcome you to my new server in THE CLOUD.
My long-time hosting provider, tummy.com, is closing at the end of September, so I need to find a new home for my blog and the other assorted services I run. I have provisioned a small VM on Google Compute Engine in us-central1-a. I picked this particular service and region mostly because I've visited the Google data centers in Council Bluffs, Iowa (home to us-central1), so I've at least walked the halls and seen the rooms where my new VM lives.
Along the way I did a lift-and-shift to move my massive photo archive into Cloud Storage. It's now strongly-consistent and replicated cross-region; and it all ought to be entirely transparent to you unless you happen to notice that the images themselves are now being served from storage.googleapis.com.
I think pretty much everything ought to be up and running. Please let me know if you run into any issues.
