Staging sites: how do you do them? (part 2)

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.

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

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

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

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

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

Nice thread, following for the replies.

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

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

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.

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

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

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