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Re: Thanks Steve
Posted by C on 1/02/08
Thanks for the info, Steve. Doesn't sound like fun. :( On 1/01/08, Steve wrote: > 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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