Greenfield Linux server and migration

PHP Platform Migration to DigitalOcean

Preparation of a new Linux hosting environment and controlled migration of an agreed WoWonder or PlayTube installation to DigitalOcean.

RoleLinux server setup and platform-migration developer

Product typeGreenfield Linux server and migration

FocusPHP · DigitalOcean · Linux

01 · The problem

Business and technical context

An existing PHP platform needed a new hosting environment while preserving its application files, database state, media, configuration, and public access path.

02 · The solution

Implementation approach

I reviewed the application requirements, prepared the agreed Linux web stack, transferred the platform and database, updated environment-specific settings, and verified the site through its new server, DNS, and SSL path.

03 · Key functionality

What I delivered

Greenfield Ubuntu or Linux application-server preparation.

PHP, web-server, and database requirement alignment.

Controlled application-file and database migration.

Environment, permission, DNS, and SSL checks.

Post-migration platform workflow verification.

04 · Constraints

Important challenges

Matching the new runtime to the existing platform requirements.

Maintaining file, database, and configuration consistency during transfer.

Coordinating server readiness with the public DNS cutover path.

05 · System view

High-level architecture

1 Existing PHP platform

2 Controlled file and database transfer

3 DigitalOcean Linux server

4 DNS and SSL delivery path

06 · Interactive system motion

Explore how the layers influence one another.

This abstract simulation turns the architecture above into a small spring-and-collision system. Move or press inside the canvas to disturb it. It is a systems visualization, not customer footage or a product screenshot.