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Issue # 206 (10-12-2003)
Moving DayOn The Move...You move your domain sometimes out of necessity, sometimes for financial reasons, and for a host of other reasons. Regardless of what you've been told, or what you've experienced ... it doesn't have to be a nightmare. |
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SimpleNet says: It's Moving Day!!!
Tired of the downtime? Tired of not being able to reach customer service? Tired of a poor quality product? Then, it's time for you to leave your loser host and move to a better platform at SimpleNet! Quite often, moving your site can seem to be a daunting task when consider the work that must be done regarding your site, email and domain name. Of the many issues that we've seen customers struggle with (transferring files, remembering password information, making sure old and new hosts have enough similar functionality, converting scripts and forms), getting your domain name and email transferred properly is perhaps the most difficult task to accomplish.
Moving your email accounts are tied to the movement of your domain name. What our clients overlook is that the control of the domain name is, often times, in the hands of the registrar (Verisign, Register.com, etc.) and not the web hosting company. Cancelling your account with your old host doesn't automatically move your domain name. Once you've got your new site set up with your new host, make sure that you also set up your email accounts. If you use web-based email, then you will have to check email at both your old and new host to make sure that you don't miss any incoming email during your domain name propagation. Our clients typically forget to setup their email accounts exactly the way they were set up with the old provider. Grab a sheet of paper and start writing down all of the account names, any forwards and where they go, any auto-responders, etc. Then, use this diagram to recreate the accounts with your new host. At this point, you are ready to initiate your domain nameserver location change. You will need to contact your domain registrar, the organization which registered your domain, and provide them with the names of your new nameservers. How do you figure out who registered your domain name? You can type in your domain name at http://www.whois.net/. The registar is the company name that you will find at the top of the whois report [whois."registrarname".com]. Contact this registrar to begin your domain name transfer. From the time that you have initiated this process, leave your site running in both locations for about a week to make sure that the domain name has fully propagated. Traffic will be directed to your old host until all domain name servers in the world know that it has been moved. This is called propagation and can take up to a few days. At the end of this period it will be safe to discontinue hosting with your old company. Check out SimpleNet… we'll help you move your site! JimWorld is hosted at SimpleNet, shouldn't you be, too? http://www.jimworld.com/go/to.cgi?l=simplenet Talk about hosting in the Forums... |
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