I’d like to have the same server settings + configuration of my first droplet which I’ve painfully optimized to use for WordPress.
Now does snapshot clone the whole website (settings, themes, plugin, etc) or just the server settings?
I just want to clone the settings ONLY as I’m not sure if I still know how to reverse-engineer what I did to my droplet.
Any input is very much appreciated!
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Hello efayans, From my experience, snapshots do clone both the Server settings and it’s contents. If what you want is both, then yes a snapshot will do. If however you want just the server settings and would like to re-install your WordPress site and contents, then you can re-create the new droplet using a snapshot of the old one and simply delete the content from the web-root directory and start over. I hope this sheds the needed light.
NOTE: You may want to pay closer attention to things like email host name setting when you launch the new droplet though. I’ve had some IP address based setting come up with errors in the past. So you should check to make sure all IP address settings are updated to the new one.