Changing domain on DigitalOcean PDS

[augustf]

I set up a BlueSky PDS via the DigitalOcean marketplace awhile back, and ended up wanting to change the domain name (where I have user.domain.com). Looking through the documentation/issues here and the pds admin tool, there doesn't appear to be an obvious way to do this. I'm currently between:

Spinning up a new PDS and migrating my account/posts to there

Modifying the config of my existing PDS to the new domain name

Is anyone aware of any steps I might take here or what strategy is best?

[bnewbold]

Creating a new PDS from scratch, and doing an account migration, is probably the most supported path today. I guess in theory it should be possible to change the PDS hostname, but there would probably be a lot of steps involved, I don't know if anybody has done this successfully, ever.

Regardless of what approach you try, I REALLY recommend not deleting the old PDS server for a week or two after you do the migration, to ensure everything went smoothly. You can shut down the old instance, just don't delete it until you are confident.

In particular, be sure to create new secret keys (PLC rotation, etc) on any new PDS instance; but also back up the old secret keys. The important thing here is to not lose control of your account identity (PLC); it is controlled via cryptographic secret keys.

[augustf]

Right-this is more or less the conclusion I reached, although the PDS->PDS account migration process also seems not to be documented. My guess is to just change my handle and see if the UI works in that use case, but then I'm really unclear about whether my posts migrate over to the new PDS or not.