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[estucaz]

Have just transferred my site from one host to another. Copied complete site to desktop and then reloaded it to new temporary holding page. Why wont it show the page?
Sorry am a complete idiot when comes to this type of work.

[rocknbil]

Do a whois of your site on any domain registrant and see if the request for the domain is pointing to your new server: that is, if your new server's DNS is 123.456.789.11 and 123.456.789.12, that should show up in the whois results as the primary and secondary nameservers. If ou haven't made this change, log in to your domain account and look for any links that relate to managing DNS servers and enter the correct values for your new host.

If that is correct, some domain services have your actual web pages ELSEWHERE besides the root of the FTP login. That is, if your login name is "example" to get to http://www.example.com, "index.html" (or index.htm, index.asp, index.cgi, whatever, your main page) may need to be located somewhere BESIDES what you see when you first log in. For example,

/example.com/index.html
/public_html/index.html
/html/example.com/public_html/index.html

Visit your host's support pages, they will tell you if this is the case.

Lastly, it is entirely possible you have everything right and the DNS servers just haven't updated the info, or your ISP's internal DNS server is not yet updated.