CDN for a small forum — overkill?

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.

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

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

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

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

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

Could not agree more.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

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

Bumping this because I ran into the same thing today.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

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

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