Your WordPress database is storing thousands of records that will never be used again.
Post revisions. Expired transients. Spam comments. Orphaned metadata.
Here's what that's costing you 🧵
We looked at support tickets from people moving WordPress sites from local to live.
SSL problems show up in about 1 in 5 of them. That's roughly 15x the rate across migrations overall.
Here's why, and what else can break 🧵
Amazon S3 is excellent storage. It's also the wrong answer for WordPress backups.
Not because it's unreliable. Because it has no idea what WordPress is.
Duplicator Cloud starts from the WordPress side and works outward. That difference shows up everywhere 🧵