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Re: Thanks-- ever transferred your domain?
Posted by Steve on 1/01/08
In short, yes and yes. Changing web hosts generally involves
changing the primary and secondary DNS nameservers for a domain.
Your new web host will instruct you about the specific procedures
for changing the nameservers. This procedure must generally be
done with the REGISTRAR for your domain, i.e., the company you
purchased xyz.com from, NOT your former web host (although they
could both be one and the same company). So what happens is basically this: You tell your current web host
provider, Company A, to get lost, stop paying your bill, or
whatever. At some point Company A responds by purging your web
page data from their system, and so your web page goes down. From
that point, anyone trying to access your web page will get a '404
not found' page from company A. It will stay that way forever, as
long as Company A is still alive and your nameservers are still
assigned to them through your domain registrar. Meanwhile, you
decide to sign up with a new web host, Company B, who will then
ask you to reassign your domain's nameservers to them, a process
that is done through your domain registrar like I said before. So
you go ahead and do that, but nothing else. Three days later you
open a browser and try and access your old web page. Now instead
of '404 not found' from Company A, it will say '404 not found'
from Company B. Now, you can finally upload your old web page (by
FTP or whatever) to company B and everything will work again like
it used to with company A. Moving to a new web host is a little like moving to a new
apartment. It takes a little while for all the change of address
cards to get recorded in all your friend's and relative's address
books. If you try to do this address change just through the main
post office, it takes forever to finally get all your forwarded
mail, so the WWW doesn't do it that way. The reason the web SEEMS
to work so fast, and why it may be counterintuitive that this DNS
update process should take as long as three days to complete is
because all the nameservers, all the address books on the planet
that have information about where your web domain actually is
(i.e, which specific IP address maps to your domain name) are up
to date and ready to serve out information on a moment's notice,
as long as nothing changes. Hope this helps clarify a little.
Steve On 12/31/07, C wrote:
> Thank you Max for the recommendation.
>
> Has anyone ever transferred their domain and hosting to another
> webhost? I'm a little apprehensive because I don't know what all
> is involved. Would my site go offline during the transfer, and
> would I have to manually add everything back?
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
> On 12/28/07, Max wrote:
>> The link didn't show up ..
>>
>> It's ... http://www.cleverdot.com
>>
>> -Max-
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/28/07, Max wrote:
>>> I like this one (see link below) for three reasons ...
>>>
>>> 1) It's cheap ... about $35 per year!
>>> 2) They support tons of things, PHP/MySQL, lots of email
>>> accounts and lots of storage.
>>> 3) They have "fantastico". That's where you can install
>>> WordPress, CubeCart, Joomla, lots of other things with the
>>> click of a button ... automatically.
>>>
Posts on this thread, including this one
- Recommend a webhost?, 12/28/07, by C.
- Re: Recommend a webhost?, 12/28/07, by Max.
- Re: Recommend a webhost?, 12/28/07, by Max.
- Re: Thanks-- ever transferred your domain?, 12/31/07, by C.
- Re: Thanks-- ever transferred your domain?, 1/01/08, by Steve.
- Re: Thanks Steve, 1/02/08, by C.
- Re: Thanks Steve, 1/02/08, by Steve.
- Re: Recommend a webhost?, 1/05/08, by Mae in Texas.
- Re: Recommend a webhost?, 4/15/08, by Abbey.
- Re: Recommend a webhost?, 5/30/08, by ~hedge~.
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