# Self Hosted, AWS Lightsail and Ubuntu

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosted-aws-lightsail-and-ubuntu/402512
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** install
**Created:** [May 8, 2026, 7:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosted-aws-lightsail-and-ubuntu/402512 "2026-05-08T19:51:06Z")
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Spinning up a new server, putting old in read-only, taking a backup, restoring the backup and moving the DNS over is the recommendation.

Make you DNS TTL shorter in preparation a a few days before.

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