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I’m planning to move my entire application from my current VPS provider to another one. Before I start, I want to make sure I don’t miss anything important during the migration. Do you have any guidance, best practices, or a checklist for migrating everything properly from one VPS to another? I want to be sure I move all necessary files, configs, services, and data so nothing breaks after switching providers. Any tips or steps to follow would be really helpful. Thanks! submitted by /u/Gokulkrish05 [link] [comments]

I am looking for a “possible” new host for my business site and would like some recommendations, please. I am fairly novice at this, as I’m a journalist by trade and know enough to get by with servers. My site is a trade journal, so it gets updated 2x-3x daily with news articles. I am currently with HostGator using a “Snappy 2000 VPS with cPanel”, but I use a Joomla platform that requires the new J5-6 upgrade to utilize [MySQL 8](). HostGator told me that my current server does not support MySQL 8, saying “MySQL 8 needs the AlmaLinux operating system, while your server has CentOS.” Background: I have had my site on HostGator since 2020 and it started on a shared server until January 2024 when I started to see reports from some of my readers who were getting errors when they visited my news site; I send a newsletter out each week and the issue seemed to be when those newsletter readers would click links and visit my site, which I assume caused some bandwith issues. When working with HostGator, they suggested the Snappy 2000 VPS with cPanel, which I switched to in January 2024. Note: It was a horrendous migration by HostGator as they lost my previous 4 months of emails (they hosted the emails at the time, but I have since switched to Microsoft hosting my emails at the suggestion of MXToolbox). I should also note that HostGator has been fairly decent in their customer service since early 2024 when I switched. I paid $1,163 for 3 years, or $387 a year, or $32 a month, which I believe renews at a higher rate. Since I need to get something that can run MySQL 8, HostGator suggested I move to its “Snappy 4000 VPS with cPanel” at a rate of $3,779 for 3 years, or $1,259 a year, or $104 a month. With the upgrade, I stay at two cores, increase from 30GB SSD storage to 165GB, upgrade from 2GB RAM to 4GB, and expand from 1TB of bandwidth to unlimited. I should note that it came with a Snappy 2000 VPS, which included cPanel, and a self-managed server configuration. At the beginning, I knew nothing about this configuration, and I still know very little about it. In deciding how to get my site to a server than cost utilize MySQL 8 and my Joomla upgrade, I realize I am not sure if I needed the VPS at all (I probably did but bought the package because out of fear my readers couldn’t access my site on a shared server), and wondered what alternatives are out there that I could move my host to. A consultant that I am using to help manage my site a bit suggested Rochen since he uses them; their “Managed Cloud Servers” come in at a hefty $290 a month to start, which made me stop to think that I may be buying more than I need; yet I want to maintain reliability because this is my business I’m running. Question: For a site that gets roughly 38,000 unique visitors and 200,000 page views a month, do I need a fully dedicated server to run my site? What alternatives do you suggest? Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to give as much info as possible. I greatly appreciate your help. submitted by /u/Previous-Ad-5756 [link] [comments]

Been with Siteground for a long time circe 6-7 years I belive now and they’ve always been really good with 99% of things. All of a sudden their “AI bot checker” shows before loading all my sites, clients have reported it wondering what it is, collaborators have said “what is this” sending screenshots. Aware its been a thing with them since 2017 but it feels like their latest revision actually needs a page load, I imagine to check for AI crawlers pretending to be a browser instance. and in doing so shows a really crap horrible off brand page. Support were massively against disabling it or even allowing me to have any input on styling it etc. Surely this shouldn’t be the norm forcing a feature on a customer, and am I the only person (along with our clients) who thinks this just isn’t acceptable? Let me know if i’m overreacting or if this is as absurd a forced “Feature” as I think it is. https://preview.redd.it/6qtc85agw21g1.png?width=380&format=png&auto=webp&s=46d184e9e4d408ffaa2d09aca6c6cc83b16cb815 submitted by /u/madragonn [link] [comments]

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