change hosting

need advice

[Albaba]

Hello :)
could you give me advices safe date ( this month) to switch to new hosting? i know this week googlebot still deep crawl.so i must becarefully and very need advices from google experts :)

thanks for your attention

[Quinn]

Your best bet is to maintain the same pages in both locations for a few weeks after you have updated DNS.

Outside of that you may want to wait until you change DNS until after you stop noticing frequent visits from the deep crawl ip (216.*)

Q

[rmjvol]

This thread [webmasterworld.com] may help. Take note of Brett's fresh news comment.

rmjvol

[Giacomo]

Keep both sites up while switching hosting providers. If you notice Googlebot is still crawling the old IP address a week or so after the DNS change, email [e-mail] with the new IP address: they will listen.

[dwilson]

Your best bet is to maintain the same pages in both locations for a few weeks after you have updated DNS.

That's true for more reasons than one. Google is not the only entity that caches DNS. In fact practically every DNS server out there does. And some of them, notably those run by AOL, cache entries for a LONG time -- as much as 30 days.

Assuming you have the option of keeping the site up on your old site, do so until your logs show it's not getting any more traffic. Most people's DNS will have been updated within a day or so of the change taking effect at your registrar ... but don't turn off the old site until the traffic to it is down to a small enough trickle that you don't mind losing those visitors.