so my hosting company gave me a bad license of ensim (which is software that helps to manage sites on my servers) ... it took them a whopping two days to install a new copy.

the interesting thing is i think they gave me the wrong version of ensim. there are two versions: one is for cheapos like me, and the other one is some "supercharged turbo alpha" version that costs $20+/month over the cheapo copy.

i think the hosting company installed the expensive one ... oops. oh well. it's not my fault they can't install the right version ... as long as i don't have to shell out $20+ month i'll be happy :)

in any case, i'm having a blast right now configuring my server (my speech is denoting lots of sarcasm which i hope you can infer) ... had to rebuild php. i've been shutting down all non-essential services (tomcat, bandwidth_manager, i'll soon shut down the whole ensim panel itself) so that this thing will be JUST for audiomatch/tabulas processing.

i tested a quick switch of audiomatch from one server to another; it seemed to work fine. i can redirect domains almost instantaneously since i'm keeping DNS on the npservers site; i'm not going to bother changing nameservers.

the problem here is if all the services will work. i'm using a test domain to upload the existing audiomatch framework, and everything seemed to work wheni tested form this site.

tabulas is a bit pickier about libraries and dependencies, so i'm sure i'm missing some stupid library that will break tabulas. well, i'm currently transferring tabulas to my new server. it's really nice to ftp from one server to another and take advantage of the ev1.net's superfast intranet to transfer gigs of data ...

i hope all this works :0)

edit: i've just updated the DNS on npservers to point audiomatch over to the new site. so far i've been pinging audiomatch but i can't get the new IP. damnit.

edit 2:goodness gracious, trying to backup tabulas is killing the old server. maybe i'll shut down httpd for a little bit ...

edit 3: ok, audiomatch is moved to the new server. man, this server is so f'ing powerful; i've double the RAM in the system and this thing is handling everything like a beauty. i'm sure it'll run a lot faster once i get everything up and running and can disable a lot of the useless programs running in the background.

i'll wait about a day to get everyone from audiomatch over to the new server, then i'll start moving tabulas over. phhheewww. gonna be fun :)