Point Your Domain at a New Server the Safe Way
DNS changes look instant but propagate slowly. A short pre-cutover checklist prevents the classic split-brain migration where half your visitors see the old site.
Hosting & Cloud
Servers, DNS, cloud VMs and deployment.
Reserve a Static IP Before You Cut Over DNS
An ephemeral address disappears the moment you stop an instance. Reserving one early costs almost nothing and removes an entire class of migration outage.
Install WordPress on a Cloud VM: A Clean Baseline
A reproducible ten-minute baseline: least-privilege database user, correct file ownership, a real cron job and no FTP credentials prompt.
Nginx Instead of Apache on a Small WordPress Instance
On a 1 GB VM, the web server choice is mostly about memory behaviour. Here is the minimum Nginx and PHP-FPM configuration a WordPress site needs.