Shared hosting to VPS migration story

Moving from shared hosting to a VPS was the best decision for my sites.

Learned the hard way that an untested backup is a Schrödinger backup.

Staging is just a subdomain plus a database copy — nothing fancy, works fine.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

Nice thread, following for the replies.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

Same registrar here, never had a problem in six years.

Thanks for sharing, saved me a lot of time.