Host a domain name separately?

Separate hosting for site, and domain hosting, and 3rd party DNS?

[Onders]

Looking for a bit of advice! My site hosting company is currently also hosting my domain name (but fortunately they have put me as the registrant) but am looking at doing some serious upgrading. This is going to involve moving my site to a different host, having a back up host and naturally some domain name issues. Have read a little bit about hosting domain name separately and also having some third party DNS.. What is the safest and best way to go about this (or is it better having everything with the same hosting company?).

[ogletree]

you can do whatever you want. People move domains all the time no problem. It happends very fast now days. Just keep both webspaces up for a little while so if the spider has an old dns cache.

[Onders]

Do you think keeping both websites up will get me running into duplicate content problems?

[ogletree]

No because the only way to get to the site is from the URL. They do not check use IP's when it comes to the SERPS unless you are linking to your site by IP. This is a best practice in moving websites. If you get a dup problem you already had one. Don't have your www.domain.com point to one and domain.com point to the other that will get you in trouble.

[rfgdxm1]

>Looking for a bit of advice! My site hosting company is currently also hosting my domain name (but fortunately they have put me as the registrant) but am looking at doing some serious upgrading. This is going to involve moving my site to a different host, having a back up host and naturally some domain name issues. Have read a little bit about hosting domain name separately and also having some third party DNS.. What is the safest and best way to go about this (or is it better having everything with the same hosting company?).

You don't need third party DNS. Register domain names with registrar of your choice. Host site at host of your choice. I do so. Should either registrar or host prove inadequate, I can quickly move. Using a third party DNS would actually make things more complicated if I ever had to do so.

[rfgdxm1]

>No because the only way to get to the site is from the URL. They do not check use IP's when it comes to the SERPS unless you are linking to your site by IP. This is a best practice in moving websites. If you get a dup problem you already had one. Don't have your www.domain.com point to one and domain.com point to the other that will get you in trouble.

To say the least. Would the very idea of doing this be, well...insane? I just via .htaccess redirect all calls to domain.com to www.domain.com. And isn't the whole idea behind domain names to avoid ever having to link to IPs?

[ogletree]

I was just trying to cover all bases. I know very few people would do that but I had to say it in case they did not know that.

[Onders]

thanks for that - now to find a reputable domain name registrar in UK!