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Old Jul 18, 2007 | 4:48 pm
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UAVirgin
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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?
To add to what ScottC said... Get the site on the new hosting company working the way you want it to. You'll have to test the web side using an IP address and then have your registrar switch to the new hosting company IP address.
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