While re-building site with Directus, where should the old site reside?

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I have a dum question (though I guess my dev can answer it).

We are planning to re-build a Wordpress site with Directus, which we are doing in a Plesk-driven server. However the old website (that is live on the Web) is under a cPanel server. For convenience only, is it better to move it under the new server, so that it will be easier to overwrite the domain once the Directus version is finished, or it is something that can always wait?

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@Criss Not a dumb question! Technically it doesn’t matter, when you’re ready to go live, it’s just a DNS change regardless of which server the old WordPress site is on.

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Ok Ahmad, I got it, but I’m thinking more about the data, which I believe should reside on the same server where the new site will run from. Also because there are some subdomains (self-hosted applications) which will not be re-build in Directus, and will stay as they are. So, isn’t it better to have all files under one server?

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if the goal is to reduce to one server, we can definitely migrate the remaining subdomains/apps to Plesk, but it’s better to do that after the new site is live.

For the WordPress site, we don’t need to move the full setup — we’ll just extract and migrate the required data into Directus.

So the plan would be: rebuild → migrate data → go live → then gradually move the remaining apps and decommission the old server.

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