[Klug-general] Relocating my blog?

[Sharon Kimble]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 09:08:26 +0100
Sharon Kimble <boudiccas at talktalk.net> wrote:

> For several years now I've had my blog and a html-health related site
> only both hosted on 1and1. Over the past month I've been getting
> increasing numbers of 'Fatal error: Out of memory' errors, and its now
> getting to the state that when I try to download and install a
> wordpress plugin update, its taking the site down so that all that’s
> seen is 'Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in
> a minute.' Its taken several emails over 3 weeks for 1and1 support to
> tell me that 'PHP memory Limit is too low' and suggest that I upgrade
> my package with them! Due to me being increasingly dissatisfied with
> their support, like, they provide the ability to install wordpress,
> but then don’t support you after installation.
> 
<snip>

Following up on this, and after several emails to various folk, I've
decided that I'm going to have a go at hosting my sites for me on this
machine.

I can install wordpress from the debian repo, which will also pull in
php5, mysql, and apache2, thereby filling all the requirements. 

But, I can see two difficulties happening -
 * I’ve found out how to remove my sites from 1and1, but how do I get
   the web to find them. I've done a 'whois' on each of my sites, and
   this is what my blog site looks like -
===============================================
    Domain name:
        sharons.org.uk

    Registrant:
        Sharon Kimble

    Registrant type:
        UK Individual

    Registrant's address:
        The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to
    have their address omitted from the WHOIS service.

    Registrar:
        1 & 1 Internet AG [Tag = SCHLUND]
        URL: http://www.1and1.co.uk or http://registrar.1und1.info

    Relevant dates:
        Registered on: 02-Apr-2005
        Expiry date:  02-Apr-2015
        Last updated:  01-Apr-2013

    Registration status:
        Registered until expiry date.
=================================================
 * so how do i get the new registration pointing to my site please?
   I've tried googling for it, but am not really sure of what I should
   be looking for!

 * Several people have mentioned 'dyndns' which I've used before. These
   are the lookalikes currently available for debian stable, but, which
   is the best please?

 acs dyndns
ddclient - address updating utility for dynamic DNS services
ddns3-client - Issues dynamic DNS v3 requests
dyndns - dynamic DNS (DDNS) update client implemented in Perl
ez-ipupdate - client for most dynamic DNS services
inadyn - client to alleviate the requirements for an Internet name
ipcheck - Dyndns.org client to register your dynamic IP address
tinydyndns - pop-before-dyndns service using djbdns

Its becoming increasingly doable to host it myself the more I read the
more confident I get that I can do it, but I'd still like the advice of
folks who do this more often in their daily jobs please? Or anyone who
has a point of view which could give me something else to think about
as well. 

Thanks folks
Sharon. 
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