{"id":2650,"date":"2025-03-27T02:19:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2025-03-27T02:19:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:19:38","slug":"how-do-you-upgrade-production-vps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/how-do-you-upgrade-production-vps\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Upgrade Production VPS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I want to upgrade my production server OS <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have few <strong>VPS<\/strong> from The-Online.com as well as digitalocean and vultr. These VPS are actually production servers where active sites are hosted that earns money for me. I used debian and ubuntu <strong>OS<\/strong> on VPS but this OS are now quite old and need to <strong>upgrade<\/strong> them. Unfortunately the repo is not active anymore. Good to have OS updated from time to time. How do you safely upgrade to old debian or ubuntu OS on production <strong>server<\/strong> without breaking anything? Do I have to setup a new server \/ VPS with <strong>updated<\/strong> OS, and migrate everything there? Point DNS, and then remove the old server? Any other simple way? <\/p>\n<!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to upgrade my production server OS I have few VPS from The-Online.com as well as digitalocean and vultr. These VPS are actually production&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[227,147,226,225,228,183],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","tag-debian","tag-hosting","tag-os","tag-server","tag-ubuntu","tag-vps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}