Shared hosting to VPS migration story — follow-up

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.

Maybe this has been discussed before, but I could not find anything recent.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

Interesting — I will have to try that.

A simple rsync cron is my entire backup strategy and I sleep fine.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

That has been my experience as well.