Decommissioning an old server gracefully (part 2)

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

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

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

Curious what everyone else here thinks about it.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

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

Good point, I had not thought of it that way.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

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

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

That has been my experience as well.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

Nice thread, following for the replies.

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

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

Could not agree more.

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.