Originally Posted by
MapleLeaf
Ok a quick question here.
The web hosting company for our church is about to go under (illness). I have all the webfiles backed up and am ready to shift to dreamhost - probably today.
If the other site goes down in the 24-72 hr transfer period, does that mean we have no web presence during that time?
What about email?
Our registrant and webhost are 2 different companies. Our registration is locked (donated to us) and we don't want to shift that - just the website.
I am reading the wiki's from dreamhost but am a bit confused... any suggestions on how to do this as painlessly as possible?
Every move is different, but the last time I moved a domain it was as painless as could be.
I made sure the site was correctly configured at dreamhost, then changed the DNS entries at Godaddy. 20 minutes later the Dreamhost site was live, and 1and1 was gone.
A quick tip: put some kind of text on the new hosters pages so you know which hoster you are hitting.
Thankfully DNS propogation is much quicker nowadays. I remember having to wait 4 days for a domain to be live, nowadays with Godaddy it's ready in under half an hour.