Decommissioning an old server gracefully — follow-up

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.

I did a bit of searching but could not find a recent thread on this, so here we go.

Would love to hear how you all handle this.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

Thanks for sharing, saved me a lot of time.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

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

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

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

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.