Shared hosting to VPS migration story

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

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.

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

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

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

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

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

Thanks for sharing, saved me a lot of time.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

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

Interesting — I will have to try that.

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

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

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

Bumping this because I ran into the same thing today.