Decommissioning an old server gracefully

I put every site behind the same free CDN tier and forgot about DDoS worries.

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

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

My monitoring setup alerts me within a minute of downtime and costs nothing.

Would love to hear how you all handle this.

Any tips, experiences or strong opinions welcome.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

That has been my experience as well.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

Thanks for sharing, saved me a lot of time.

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

Interesting — I will have to try that.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

Interesting — I will have to try that.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

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

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

I disagree slightly, but I can see where you are coming from.