DNS propagation horror stories — follow-up

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.

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

Any tips, experiences or strong opinions welcome.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

Could not agree more.