Good time to change DNS?

I know there's threads on this, but there didn't seem to be a consensus

[lavapies]

Hi folks,

I finally axed my terrible hosting company and chose one of the hosts most recommended in WebmasterWorld a while ago.

I've been reading threads on when is a good time to change DNS and repoint name to new host, but there didn't seem to be any consensus on this.

I guess this month's update is coming soon, so I imagine now's not a good time, and then there'll be a crawl soon after - so about the beginning of October a good time?

Just wondered if anyone had changed recently and had a firm opinion on this.

Thanks

[Night_Hawk]

lavapies

I wish i could help you there.
Can you provide a link to the discussion regarding the "recomended hosting company". Thanks and good luck.

[WebGuerrilla]

>>I guess this month's update is coming soon, so I imagine now's not a good time

Actually, I think now would be the best time. Especially if you can leave it up at both locations for awhile.

The majority of the new content that will appear in the coming update has already been crawled. A new crawl will begin tight after the update.

If you change it now you should have a solid two weeks for it to update. That should be plenty.

[Beachboy]

Agree with WebGuerrilla. He was kind enough to offer similar advice a couple months ago to me. I have several websites that I will be shifting to a new host either on the 17th or 18th. We will soon find out the fate of other websites I shifted to yet a different host last month at this time...when Google updates, hopefully the PR will still be with us. ;) Maybe it's time to bribe Ms. Googlebot with more chocolate chip cookies and cold milk to assure favorable treatment.

[lavapies]

WebGuerilla and Beachboy... thanks for the advice. I hadn't thought of it like that.

I have just switched DNS and waiting for it to filter through.

Night_hawk.. here's one of the threads I was looking at:

[webmasterworld.com...]

Thanks again folks.

[wingslevel]

I just switched hosts last month. I left the old box up with the dns pointing to the new box - I let them overlap for a week. As soon as I saw the googlebot showing up in the logs on the new ip address I shut down the old box. Google hit me within 48 hours at the new ip.

[Beachboy]

I have moved a lot of websites to other hosting operations over the last month or so. The moves were timed to occur just before the Google updates for August and September. After some good advice from people here and some research, I chose the 18th of the month as the DNS transfer date.

I chose the 18th of July as the DNS change date, to be in time for the August 21st update. And the 18th of August for this September update. The consensus was that the best time to move sites is just before an update occurs.

No 301 redirect was used at all.

As soon as DNS caught up with the hosting change, all index pages were submitted to Google again. Google smoothly transitioned to find the sites on the new servers by the time of the following update, all sites are still in the Google index. No problems at all.

[GoogleGuy]

What WebGuerilla and Beachboy said. Listen to them--they're smart. :)

[Beachboy]

Dang! GoogleGuy spoke to me! :) :) :)

[lavapies]

Thanks for the advive guys.. I did change servers about a week b4 this last update and things have gone smoothly.. but I notice Googlebot is still crawling my old server and not hit the new one yet. I guess I'll just sit-tight until she comes by and then take down the old one.

Thanks again