New Year, New Server 2: Electric Boogaloo

I got to really put my recently-practised and newly-learned systems administration skills to the test again, mere months after my my last update about migrating the server that hosts my websites. Why’s that, you ask? Because the server host that I switched to has been a major disappointment. To cut a long story short—although, I never seem to be able to tell short stories—the server host that I switched to at the end of last year employs deceptive pricing tactics. Advertise A, but deliver A × 1.5 after 3 months type of stuff. And if that wasn’t bad enough, I’ve also been having horrendous issues with establishing and maintaining connections to the server. I have lost track of how many times this website’s scheduled and new commit CI Actions failed to sync newly-built files to my server, seemingly at random times and intervals. Checking the logs would reveal that CI wouldn’t even be reaching my server. Just accept the connection, damn it! Enough was enough. I got a new server. It’s…