How often do you actually test your backups? — follow-up

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

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

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

Curious what everyone else here thinks about it.

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.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

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

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

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

That has been my experience as well.

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

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.