Can snapshots be used when upgrading the host OS?

[Kartoon]

@pfaffman

It’s the safest thing to do, though. If you break it, your old site continues to work. There is zero risk.

There is a topic about that. You can copy over your yml file and the let’s encrypt stuff and even see that it works by changing your local dns to point to the new server.

And if you have your backups on S3 then you can sleep better knowing that if something goes badly wrong you can spin up a new server and restore a backup in about 30 minutes.

My only actual concern wasn’t so much just moving it, it was goingg through the entire setup and somehow botching some setting whether it’s the email service or letsencryp or what and only realizing it down the line once everything falls apart. Which obviously isn’t an issue if it can just reads my old app.yml so that’s fine

@merefield

One issue that bit me this week was my email setup: make sure your email service doesn’t require the exact IP you are calling from. If they do be sure to update that config (at your service provider)

Not entirely sure what this means but I don’t think it does…I have Mailgun and checking all the records there/DNS in godaddy nothing seems to be linked to any specific IP

Alright sounds easy enough I’ll give it a try this week. Maybe upgrade to a better Droplet at the same time