Move Website From GoDaddy Shared Host to Digital Ocean VPS

This will be a documentation of moving a website from GoDaddy shared hosting to Digital Ocean droplet.  Any other cloud hosting service should work with variation in the server creation on the cloud system.  For example other services such as Linode etc.  Note that Digital Ocean calls their virtual machines droplets, other providers will have a different name.

While documenting this process I moved the domain 09flhrc.com from GoDaddy shared hosting to a Digital Ocean Droplet. For this documentation I am using this bogus IP address to represent the IP address assigned to the droplet: 123.456.709.012

Installation notes to install Arch Linux on Lenovo T480

Btrfs (B-tree file system) is a modern, copy-on-write (CoW) filesystem for Linux designed for high scalability, fault tolerance, and easy administration. It supports advanced features like snapshots, data compression, and built-in RAID. It is widely used in Linux distributions (e.g., Fedora) and enterprise NAS systems for data integrity.

zram: Zram (formerly compcache) is a Linux kernel module that creates a compressed, RAM-based block device, acting as a faster alternative to traditional swap. By compressing data in memory (typically at a 3:1 ratio), it allows systems to store more data in RAM, significantly reducing disk I/O and enhancing responsiveness on low-memory devices.