Moving the site
This site (and my other site in Danish) have been hosted on a cheap shared hosting site a few years. As shared hosting platforms go, the service and features at GigaHost was quite reasonable, but their servers seemed continuously overloaded and the site had a few issues from time to time. I’ve been moving everything from the shared hosting platform to the smallest available VPS server at DigitalOcean.
Why the move?
- Performance on shared hosting platforms never seems to amaze.
- Limited set of features - no shell access, dummy selfcare interface, reasonable features - but limited.
- Was dirt cheap when I moved in, but not as much - the VPS is actually priced lower.
How did I move the site?
The various parts of the move will probably be described in details in further posts on the site in the foreseeable future, but basically the steps included: