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Old 12-07-08, 11:23 AM
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Has anyone here gone through the pain of switching their web host?

My hosting package is up for renewable and I'm considering moving it to another provider.

If you did move, how long was your website down for?

Thanks

Will
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Old 23-07-08, 10:35 AM
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Has anyone here gone through the pain of switching their web host?

My hosting package is up for renewable and I'm considering moving it to another provider.

If you did move, how long was your website down for?

Thanks

Will
One tip ...

... is changing the DNS (Domain Name Servers) to point to the new hosting environment *before* turning off your old hosting, and turning on your new hosting.

Updated DNS takes around 24 hours to propogate itself throughout the Internet so, if you "switch" around12 hours before moving to new hosting, you should be able to minimise downtime.

Hope this helps ...
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Old 23-07-08, 09:40 PM
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Thanks Stratigen, partly due to the propagation down-time and a lack of spare time I've now decided I'm going to stick with my current host - not looking forward to having to do it though.

How's the SMS business going?
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