Changing hosts for first time

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Changing hosts for first time

trying to see where I am...

Stefan

1:53 am on Jun 5, 2003 (gmt 0)

I've ditched my old company to go with what I hope is a more dependable host. I've left the site up on the old host for a month, arranged the new host and uploaded the site evng Jun 2, then yesterday morning requested the DNS change. I'm seeing the change in a whois, saw searches arriving last night from msn and google on the new host, (new host only updates the logs once a day grrr), but I still can't get to it with the URL from here in Canada... maybe just going through slowly. My email is going through on the old host here too. I checked the charter for this forum and it didn't say I couldn't ask this so... if anyone could go to the site in the profile, go to news, and tell me if they see the date Jun 4 (old host) or Jun 5 (new host), I'd be very grateful. I just want to know it's working 'cause it won't for me yet.

Many thanks.

oilman

2:00 am on Jun 5, 2003 (gmt 0)

I'm in Canada and I see June 5. There are some hosts in Canada that are notorious for running caching proxies. Nucleus in Calgary comes to mind. I had a friend that could never see changes to his sites for days because of the cache at the ISP level and they wouldn't do anything about it.

Sit tight - you'll see it soon I'm sure :)

Stefan

2:04 am on Jun 5, 2003 (gmt 0)

Thank you very, very much, Oilman! I'm with the ISP company that starts with sym in Canada. They might be lagging with the DNS cache eh? Much appreciated, man, I needed some reassurance that it was actually moving. :-)

Edited: for clarity

IanTurner

2:18 am on Jun 5, 2003 (gmt 0)

I don't see that many problems with DNS caching, usually 24 hours will see you clear over here (UK)

Jenstar

2:22 am on Jun 5, 2003 (gmt 0)

I was with another ISP in Canada, and I finally had to contact support because they hadn't updated their DNS cache for ten days. Who knows how long they would have left it if I hadn't contacted them.

I have since switched to cable and much happier :)

Stefan

2:28 am on Jun 5, 2003 (gmt 0)

I wish, Jenstar... I'm about 20 k from the nearest cable, phone exchange etc. It's either my dialup or satellite :)

I'll give the ISP another day then maybe do what you did and bug them to update the cache.

Jenstar

2:35 am on Jun 5, 2003 (gmt 0)

I'll never move anywhere that I can't have high speed internet. When I moved the last time, I phoned to make sure the company could come install the cable internet that same day so I wouldn't have any downtime (and they laughed when I said I didn't have a new phone number yet, since I phoned them first before any of the other utility companies) ;)

You might want to contact them tomorrow afternoon, instead of waiting until Friday - you don't want to be stuck without it updated over the weekend. My previous ISP seemed to take off early on Fridays, and not to be seen again until Monday.

Stefan

2:41 am on Jun 5, 2003 (gmt 0)

You might want to contact them tomorrow afternoon, instead of waiting until Friday.

Sounds like a plan.

The thing about lack of hi-speed for me is that I like living where there's good climbing; to get better internet access I'd have to move to town and then I'd be a fish out of water. Dialup teaches one patience anyway. :)