Decommissioning an old server gracefully

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.

I did a bit of searching but could not find a recent thread on this, so here we go.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

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

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

Bumping this because I ran into the same thing today.

Nice thread, following for the replies.

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.

Interesting — I will have to try that.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

Bumping this because I ran into the same thing today.

Nice thread, following for the replies.

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

Thanks for sharing, saved me a lot of time.

Nice thread, following for the replies.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

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

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