Moving rot47.net to VPS finally (Website Migration)

I registered the domain rot47.net at Christmas/2012 at Godaddy, and that is my second purchased domain. I paid for 10 year domain registration and 3 year web hosting (on a shared server, 100GB disk).

After I moved all other websites to the VPS (Virtual Private Server), then I found out that I don’t like share hosting any more. I upgraded the VPS again and again and the specs (3 cores, 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM, 20G HDD) should be more than enough to handle 6 websites.

I then make a copy of the website files and database, upload them to VPS and add a virtual website using a2ensite command. Reload the Apache server using command service apache2 reload. Then I go to CloudFlare settings to change the DNS to point to the VPS IP. This marks the end of me using share hosting servers and begins the wonderful journey with VPS (Virtual Private Server).

Finally, I cancelled the hosting product and the database at Godaddy. Now, all of my websites are hosted on the same VPS, and five of them (except this domain because free SSL by CloudFlare is not supported by all browsers) are using CloudFlare (Content Delivery Networks) to speed up website loading.

Another advantage of moving everything together is that I can then use a backup script to run scheduled e.g. every day to backup everything. Everyday before I go to sleep, I will download everything (files and SQL) from the VPS to hard drive as a backup.

This website migration is so far so good.

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