Recent content by dknife

I used Crocweb shared hosting years ago before I moved to my own VPS and never had any issues with them. They were quite good hosts.

I'm assuming that is meant to be a question rather than a statement of fact.

Why are they valuable to you?

One thing not mentioned that might be rather obvious, make sure to put your site into maintenance mode during the migration :)

Just make sure you start with an empty database and all the IDs will be retainer during import.

That's the point, the links don't break, they redirect to the new version of the URL as a 301.

Check your page payload when you visit your forum to see how big it is on various pages.

You're being ridiculous. Going from operating your own VPS and using built-in firewall functions to coding your own webserver and SSL stack is like saying if you ride a bike you might as well just build your own Tesla.

You're probably only going to use more memory than that if you have a really large database. If you have Elastic Search on the same server and it's a large index you could increase that's memory usage. That's a lot of RAM though, I'm assuming your site is very large. For your issue with the...

In the absence of support hours, one can assume a business would keep normal business hours of M-F workdays.

If your request to account staff is on a weekend, you won't get any action until they're back in the office. Obviously.

If it has enough RAM to allow for both running at the same time then I don't see why not.

Aren't managed databases more about easy instance creation and redundant failover to completely separate mirrored instances? If it's anything like RDS, read speeds are usually very fast but there's a write penalty.

I tried post comments for while and very few users liked it. They especially told me they really didn't want the forum to move to a reddit-style discussion.

SSD block storage is around $10 per 100Gb. Is that expensive to you?