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09-20-2026, 11:49 PM
Learned the hard way that an untested backup is a Schrödinger backup.
Staging is just a subdomain plus a database copy — nothing fancy, works fine.
Moving from shared hosting to a VPS was the best decision for my sites.
Would love to hear how you all handle this.
I did a bit of searching but could not find a recent thread on this, so here we go.
Staging is just a subdomain plus a database copy — nothing fancy, works fine.
Moving from shared hosting to a VPS was the best decision for my sites.
Would love to hear how you all handle this.
I did a bit of searching but could not find a recent thread on this, so here we go.
09-22-2026, 10:03 PM
(09-20-2026, 11:49 PM)EchoEzra Wrote: Learned the hard way that an untested backup is a Schrödinger backup.A simple rsync cron is my entire backup strategy and I sleep fine.
Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.
Could not agree more.
Bumping this because I ran into the same thing today.
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