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from our present hosting company powweb.com to lunarpages.com
but, i'm totally freaked that we'll be down, are we just going to have to bite the bullet!? i'm thinking theres got to be another way to change without all the downtime. -- but i have limited knowledge of stuff --
from lunarpages:
Your domain will be propagated throughout the Internet after the DNS changes are processed. What this means is that every nameserver around the world is being updated with the new domain record. During this time your domain and email will not work or they will work sporadically. This process may take up to 72 hours.
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Imosh - there is a way, if I remember correctly.
Using 302 redirect pages (?).
Click the old url, and user is forwarded to NEW url.
But that's about the extent of my knowledge there.
Sorry.
But HEY! Good luck on your move!
Wait a second!!!
That might be for changing your URL, not your host.
Forget what I said.
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Hi,
This is just a bit off topic, and I don't want to hijack your thread but -
I was thinking of switching to powweb. If you don't mind my asking, why are you switching away from them? I'm just trying to do some research on who would be the best host.
Thanks if you care to share.
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Just leave the site up at the old host until the DNS changes have been propagated.
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-------------- DON'T GO TO POWWEB!!!!!!!
they have a bbs, so you can see the problems for yourself, its a fkn mess.
http://forum.powweb.com/
www.LunarPages.com is cheap, and stable, let me repeat STABLE!!
Powweb has constant outages, and SO unreliable.
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back to topic
i will be leaving the site up on the old server, but i will still be down X amount of time, which is the suck part.
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does powweb use cpanel ? if so it will be a very easy transition
dns basically updates instantly now u should be down more than like 30 minutes.. well at least for urself or the us
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powweb uses webalizer, but the customer has to install it. (i think)
lunarpages uses cpanel, its a pretty cool feature.
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Originally Posted by s2kinteg916
dns basically updates instantly now u should be down more than like 30 minutes.. well at least for urself or the us
No. When you update your DNS records with your definitive name server, your records on that server are updated instantly, or at least very quickly. This is nothing new. It then takes like 24 to 72 hours for the DNS records to propagate through the all the cached name servers on the internet. There is no such thing as instantly propagating DNS.
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Yeah i guess i didnt clarify but there seems to be something new now . I can register a domain and work on it via domainbought.com withing 45 minutes or so. I dont know the exact details or what its called ... but this never happaned before
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You can redirect viewers from your old website to the new as soon as the new one is up. You don't have to wait for the DNS to propagate.
As a matter of fact, you'd want to leave the old one up for a month or two so that people who have it bookmarked can find you.
You need to put up a new index.html page on the old website. It should say something like:
HTML Code:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="15; URL=http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx">
</head>
******>
We have moved to a new home.<br>
Please <a href="http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx">click here</a> if you are not
automatically redirected within 15 seconds.<br>
Remember to update your bookmarks when you reach the new page.<br>
</body>
</html>
Where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP number of your new website, and "15" is the number of seconds before loading the new page. The "15" can be any number from 0 on up.
Add whatever colors and formating you want to make the page pretty.