DNS propagation horror stories

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

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.

Would love to hear how you all handle this.

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

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.