Hello, I am trying to change my forum’s original IP address and was told to do so through DigitalOcean by destroying my droplet and creating a new one from a snapshot. I am concerned that I am going to have to rebuild my forum from scratch so I would please like to know how to avoid that. Do I just…

A DigitalOcean snapshot will retain everything as it is at the moment you take the snapshot, so destroying and recreating a new droplet from the snapshot will put you back exactly were you were. You will need to update the A record in the DNS file, though. The other method is to follow the instruct…

Can I retain my forum content if I change its original IP?

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Falco (Falco) November 26, 2020, 9:49pm 3

Please follow Move your Discourse Instance to a Different Server

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Can I retain my forum content if I change its original IP?

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