/tags/server/ Recent content in Server on KI6UOC Hugo en-us Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:36:09 -0700 /posts/2026_upgrade_complete/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:36:09 -0700 /posts/2026_upgrade_complete/ <p>If you&rsquo;re reading this and you&rsquo;re reading it on ki6uoc.com, it means that the upgrade is complete and successful. Read on to see more about the process. While this isn&rsquo;t that technically interesting, perhaps it&rsquo;s useful to anyone else who might be in this situation of having to update a old and unsupported version of Debian to latest stable.</p> <h1 id="overall-strategy">Overall Strategy</h1> <p>I currently have this VPS hosted on Atlantic.net. Most advice would say &ldquo;Just reprovision the serve with a new instance with an updated operating system&rdquo;. This is how anyone who manages large fleets of machines deals with this: You have a base OS image and when it&rsquo;s time to upgrade you spin up a new instance with a new version of the Base OS image, set up whatever application its supposed to serve on it, cut over the DNS or point the load balancer at the new instance and remove the old one. And this was an option here: Given that I&rsquo;m only hosting a static website there would be no technical functional bar to doing this. Just upload a copy of my website to the new server, get it working, cut over the DNS and update any certificates.</p>