Changing Host

Again

[brotherhood of LAN]

I was checking out some of the older threads about changing host and the timing of it all but couldnt get the one I was looking for.

Basically I have an account using IIS/Windows and I'm heading over to Westhost for a bit of Apache/Unix.

I have the content sitting identically on both the old and (potentially) new account with webhost. All that needs to be done is change the domain over from my old account to new. I have 40 days left on my old account to leave the old content up.

So what is the preferred method as it were? I have a few links to the site and alright PR etc etc, so I don't want to be one of the casualties changing host :)

[dingman]

If you own the domain name your on, rather than being located at hostingservice.tld/~you and/or moving to otherhostingservice.tld/~you, you have it pretty easy.

If you've got identical content on both hosts, I'd switch the DNS, leave the old host up for a couple days just to be sure it propagated, and call it good. As long as your links are all by domain name, and why wouldn't they be, that should do it.

[David]

You shouldn't have to worry about duplicate content as long as you don't leave it up forever. I would switch the dns now and wait until google hits the new server before you kill the old one. It takes them the longest to update their dns.

[sun818]

I ran in some difficultieschanging hosts [webmasterworld.com] from a Windows/IIS to Unix/Apache environment.