All right so I'll need to do some cowboy coding on the old box, but I'll save that for later I think because it isn't true cowboy coding unless there are drinks involved, and honestly at this point the worst that can happen is I do not achieve a successful migration. Which is where we're at now anyway so I'll just pour myself a drink later on and do this.

Toot by Richard ARichard A (indieweb.social)

I don't think so, unless I can somehow get the db out of a VPS backup from Digital Ocean. This all started with a screwed up fail2ban config which means I can't connect to the server via SFTP or SSH, and then DO's online consul being inaccessible to screen readers while connecting to the box just fine.