Migrating a WordPress Fleet, Part 4: SSL/TLS, Running Let’s Encrypt Across a Multi-Domain Box

This is part 4 of an 8-part series on migrating a fleet of roughly 40 WordPress sites from two shared-hosting providers (A2 Hosting and SiteGround) onto a self-managed Hestia Control Panel VPS with Cloudflare as the DNS layer. “Self-managed Hestia Control Panel VPS” does not imply exotic or special-purpose hardware: Hestia runs on any generic … Read more

Migrating a WordPress Fleet, Part 5: Email Is the Hard Part

This is part 5 of an 8-part series on migrating a fleet of roughly 40 WordPress sites from two shared-hosting providers (A2 Hosting and SiteGround) onto a self-managed Hestia Control Panel VPS with Cloudflare as the DNS layer. “Self-managed Hestia Control Panel VPS” does not imply exotic or special-purpose hardware: Hestia runs on any generic … Read more

Migrating a WordPress Fleet, Part 6: The Pitfalls List, a Reference of Everything That Broke

This is part 6 of an 8-part series on migrating a fleet of roughly 40 WordPress sites from two shared-hosting providers (A2 Hosting and SiteGround) onto a self-managed Hestia Control Panel VPS with Cloudflare as the DNS layer. “Self-managed Hestia Control Panel VPS” does not imply exotic or special-purpose hardware: Hestia runs on any generic … Read more

Migrating a WordPress Fleet, Part 3: The Migration Playbook, Files, Databases, and WordPress

This is part 3 of an 8-part series on migrating a fleet of roughly 40 WordPress sites from two shared-hosting providers (A2 Hosting and SiteGround) onto a self-managed Hestia Control Panel VPS with Cloudflare as the DNS layer. “Self-managed Hestia Control Panel VPS” does not imply exotic or special-purpose hardware: Hestia runs on any generic … Read more

Migrating a WordPress Fleet, Part 4: SSL/TLS, Running Let’s Encrypt Across a Multi-Domain Box

This is part 4 of an 8-part series on migrating a fleet of roughly 40 WordPress sites from two shared-hosting providers (A2 Hosting and SiteGround) onto a self-managed Hestia Control Panel VPS with Cloudflare as the DNS layer. “Self-managed Hestia Control Panel VPS” does not imply exotic or special-purpose hardware: Hestia runs on any generic … Read more

Migrating a WordPress Fleet: The Series

Migrating a WordPress fleet: the series This is the index for an 8-part series on migrating a fleet of roughly 40 WordPress sites from two shared-hosting providers (A2 Hosting and SiteGround) onto a self-managed Hestia Control Panel VPS with Cloudflare as the DNS layer. “Self-managed Hestia Control Panel VPS” does not imply exotic or special-purpose … Read more

Migrating a WordPress Fleet, Part 2: DNS Architecture, Why Cloudflare and How We Set It Up

This is part 2 of an 8-part series on migrating a fleet of roughly 40 WordPress sites from two shared-hosting providers (A2 Hosting and SiteGround) onto a self-managed Hestia Control Panel VPS with Cloudflare as the DNS layer. “Self-managed Hestia Control Panel VPS” does not imply exotic or special-purpose hardware: Hestia runs on any generic … Read more