By bill
I’d like to rebuild my server (updated OS, reinstall everything, restore database, yada yada).
I don’t want to take the site offline, so I would prefer to create a new droplet, build it, test it etc… and then once it’s done, take the old one offline, reconfigure the new droplet to have the same IP address.
How do I do this?
Thanks!
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You can’t have the same IP on two machines, obviously.
I would recommend you to create a new Droplet, set it up as you want and, when it’s ready, edit your domain name’s destination to your new IP.
One option would be setting up everything from scratch on the new droplet, taking a snapshot, and then rebuilding the old droplet from the new droplet’s snapshot.
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