Some of you already know: in October 2022, I'll be leaving HaiSoft to embark on new adventures with a web agency. I'll still be a Sysadmin specialising in WordPress, but I'll now be in charge of hosting.
In addition, a few months ago I launched my own freelance WordPress webmaster.
I decided to accompany him officially from accommodation services to enable fluid management of all services.
And because I'm committed to providing the best possible service, that meant server changes with a overhaul of the infrastructure, more powerful and advanced than ever.
Over the last fortnight or so, I've been working to overhaul the site with the utmost care and without any noticeable disruption to service, working through the night for operations that could cause minor outages (in particular the DNS overhaul).
New infrastructure domain: lrob.net
To facilitate management, a new domain name is being used for the technical operation of the : lrob.net
New Plesk URL
The new Plesk URL will be sent to you by email.
Your login/password will remain unchanged.
I will redirect old names to the new one for 30 days. Don't forget to update your bookmarks before this deadline.
If you forget your login or password, please follow the forgotten password procedure or come back to me for a manual reset.
New NS (name servers)
The NS authorities for your domain names have also changed.
I was able to handle the changes for 100% of the domains currently hosted.
For your information, if you want to add a domain (resellers), you will now need to use the following DNS servers:
- ns1.lrob.net
- ns2.lrob.net
- ns3.lrob.net
These NS are hosted on servers located in three different geographical locations for optmised redundancy: Lausanne (Switzerland), Nice and Nuremberg (Germany).
They are now 100% IPv6 compatible in addition to IPv4.
They are also DNSSEC-secured (ECDSAP256SHA256, the standard also chosen by CloudFlare) to protect against NS spoofing/poisoning (man in the middle) attacks.
Result: Absolutely perfect. Even better than the web giants (Google, OVH, Microsoft, Facebook, etc.):
- https://www.zonemaster.net/result/2e2e6ab1eb0bd5bb (perishable link, if necessary repeat the test on lrob.net)
- https://dnssec-debugger.verisignlabs.com/lrob.net
- https://dnsviz.net/d/lrob.net/dnssec/
New hosting server and technical information
The new server is a major upgrade. dedicated server (previously virtual server) with unlimited Plesk licence (previously 30 domains), making it possible to offer a «reseller» service that gives resellers the freedom to manage the addition/deletion of their domains independently.
This server is located in Falkenstein (Germany) at Hetzner. The bandwidth (gigabit) and ping to France are excellent.
Compared to the previous server, which was already decent, the new one is around 2x more powerful in terms of CPU, it has 8x more RAM, 2x more storage, and the NVME SSDs are around 3x faster than the previous SATA SSDs.
The performance gains are significant.
IPv6 is now fully supported. TLS 1.3 (maximum security) and HTTP/2 (maximum speed) are now natively supported (directly by Apache, without Nginx reverse proxy).
The server and the entire infrastructure are now actively monitored.
A push backup is currently in place on a daily basis. A second «pull» backup is in the process of being set up. Despite these precautions on your part, don't forget to make back-ups of your data too, because it's almost always when it's too late that users ask the question. Remember that in hosting, it's always the end customer who is responsible for their data, whatever the size of the hosting provider.
This should summarise the important information. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries.
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