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Ubuntu has now days awesome start/stop system called Upstart which has replaced /sbin/init. It is also capable to supervising processes. It is really simple to add new processes to upstart. I wanted my blog start automatically on system boot and therefore I added my blog under upstarts control.

One of sites which I admin lived on hosting providers server which was powered with CPanel and I moved it on VPS few days ago. I had tar file which was CPanel’s full backup of host. Emails and website was easy to migrate from that backup because tar contained all emails on Maildir format and whole website was on one folder. Mailing list migration was more trickier because of CPanels patched version of Mailman.

I found this helpful Mailman migration article, but it was for normal Mailman setup and steps are little bit different if you are moving away from CPanel. I didn’t find too much information of CPanel’s Mailman so I wrote this small tutorial for other admins who are moving away from CPanel and have to migrate their mailing lists to standard Mailman setup.

I didn’t find out better title for this article so I named simply “High load, bounces and email marketing” because this article and my last week problem relates to those topics. Last week I was leaving from work when I found that one of our server was under heavy load. I was almost restarting Apache when remembered that I had few days earlier read blog post about how someone had missed why their server was under high load because he had not looked server’s logs.