Finally working on migrating my ProfLehman.com blog to a different server. This post is on the new site hosted at AWS using their Lightsail server. I used the smallest micro server instance with 512 MB of memory and 20 GB of storage which is $3.50 per month (2022). I used the pre-built WordPress image which meant the server was running in a just a few minutes.

Steps …

• Created the Lightsail server instance
• Backed-up and downloaded old site using UpdraftPlus WordPress plugin. I used the free version.
• Uploaded back-up files and restored on new site
• Logged into mysql to fix WordPress user password that was lost as my original user account was lost in the transfer 🙂
• Changed the server instance to use a static IP address

So … remaining issues … my images still have a reference back to the old web host. I think this can be changed either by editing the post in WordPress or by going into the database.

My next step is to transfer and link my ProfLehman.com domain name.