WordPress Successful Migration

After many attempts, and a lot of troubleshooting, I have finally successfully migrated my WordPress site to a new self-hosting option. And this time, without losing any data, which is a step up from previous efforts.

Up until now, the site has been running on an old laptop, loaded with Ubuntu. It was stable, but required a nightly maintenance reboot due to an apparent memory leak. The laptop had a broken screen, so I could only really use it thru ssh, which worked but was more than a little challenging. I tried multiple times to move and relocate the instance, but kept running into various layered problems with the configuration, ran out of time and had to default back to the existing install.

Now, I managed to successfully migrate to a full Proxmox VM, still running Ubuntu, but capable of backups, stability, and high availability. The OS version is updated to the latest, php is running the latest, and the site itself is running much faster and smoother. All of this behind a Nginx Reverse Proxy that makes it visible on the internet, but keeps my environment otherwise secure.

This should make the site’s responsiveness much stronger and faster, and I can much more easily scale the environment as needed.

I suspect much of the process is overly technical for anyone to really care about, but I will likely write out my process anyway, if only for my own records. My next stage is to rebuild my home TrueNAS installation, and move it to a Proxmox environment as well, which will then likely require another short migration of WordPress to the much stronger hardware.

If you spot any errors I am not aware of, please let me know either thru a comment, or via my other contact methods.