포럼 복원 시 DNS 설정을 업데이트해야 하나요?

[ZachS]

클라이언트가 Digital Ocean에 포럼을 호스팅하고 있지만, 몇 달 동안 사용하지 않아도 되며 그 동안 호스팅 비용을 절약하고 싶어 합니다. 이와 관련하여 몇 가지 질문이 있습니다:

1. 드롭렛을 삭제하기 전에 스냅샷을 만드는 것이 좋은지, 아니면 백업을 만드는 것이 좋은가요?
2. 스냅샷/백업 생성, 드롭렛 삭제, 그리고 새로운 드롭렛에 포럼을 복원하는 과정 중 어느 시점에서든 DNS 또는 Mailgun 설정을 변경해야 하는가요?

@pfaffman 의견이 있으신가요?

[TheDarkWizard]

@ZachS

Is it better to create a snapshot or a backup before destroying the droplet?

It depends if you are trying to have convience or save money. Digital Ocean does charge for snapshots, even if the price is small: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/snapshots/. If tghe site is small, I’d also take a backup just incase.

@ZachS

At any point in the process of creating the snapshot/backup, destroying the droplet, and then restoring the forum on a new droplet, do the DNS or mailgun settings need to be updated in any way?

Assuming your mailgun access did not change, that should not be required. As for DNS, if the hostname has not changed, when you spin it back up, it should also be fine. I would do an backup/import if only because that way you can have the setup process run again

Hope this helps!

[RGJ (Richard - Communiteq)]

@ZachS

• Is it better to create a snapshot or a backup before destroying the droplet?
• At any point in the process of creating the snapshot/backup, destroying the droplet, and then restoring the forum on a new droplet, do the DNS or mailgun settings need to be updated in any way?

1. since you want to save costs, you can better create a backup. You can store it on your own computer / Dropbox / whatever and not be billed. However, please note #2b below.

2a) A new droplet implies a new IP address so you do need to update DNS.
2b) Restoring a backup restores everything EXCEPT for mailgun settings (and a few other things like your SSL certificate). You do need to configure Mailgun using your app.yml or the setup script. I think it is the most convenient to save the original app.yml next to the backup.