Shared hosting to VPS migration story — follow-up

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

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

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

Would love to hear how you all handle this.

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

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

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

That has been my experience as well.

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

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

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

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

Interesting — I will have to try that.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

Could not agree more.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

Thanks for sharing, saved me a lot of time.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

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

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

Bumping this because I ran into the same thing today.