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# DigitalOcean Migration
- URL: https://www.justinw.me/blog/digitalocean-migration/
- Published: 2016-01-30T11:07:16.000Z
- Updated: 2016-01-30T16:34:34.000Z
- Author: Justin Williams
- Tags: digitalocean

If you can read this, then everything has moved successfully. I’m now hosting the site on a server at [DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=08745ff7fad4&ref=justinw.me) rather than on Azure. Why? Predominantly performance. Azure is notoriously slow when it comes to MySQL, apparently because it’s outsourcing the database to a third-party company rather than hosting it themselves. I was faced with either running my own virtual machine instance of MySQL myself or moving somewhere else. I used that as my opportunity to evaluate other options.

I settled on [DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=08745ff7fad4&ref=justinw.me) based off referrals from friends, but also their one-click WordPress install and ample documentation. I haven’t run my own VPS in a while, so I was a bit rusty in remembering all the nooks and crannies I needed to cover to secure a Linux system. Thankfully, there are plenty of first-party tutorials provided.

- [One-Click Install WordPress on Ubuntu 14.04 with DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/one-click-install-wordpress-on-ubuntu-14-04-with-digitalocean?ref=justinw.me)
- [How To Install an SSL Certificate from a Commercial Certificate Authority](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-an-ssl-certificate-from-a-commercial-certificate-authority?ref=justinw.me)
- [How To Configure Secure Updates and Installations in WordPress on Ubuntu](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-secure-updates-and-installations-in-wordpress-on-ubuntu?ref=justinw.me)
- [Initial Server Setup with Ubuntu 14.04](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-14-04?ref=justinw.me)
- [Additional Recommended Steps for New Ubuntu 14.04 Servers](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/additional-recommended-steps-for-new-ubuntu-14-04-servers?ref=justinw.me)

Hopefully the speed increase of carpeaqua will motivate me to write more than I do. Every time I sat down to write something before, I’d get annoyed at how long it was taking for a request to process. Now things are instantaneous. I’m running out of excuses.

If you want to check out DigitalOcean, [click or tap on this referral link](https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=08745ff7fad4&ref=justinw.me). You get $10 in credit and I get a little kickback too.