Comments on: Moving your website to another server? Tune your DNS for minimum downtime. http://www.ducea.com/2006/05/21/moving-your-website-to-another-server-tune-your-dns-for-minimum-downtime/ The Journal Of A Linux Sysadmin Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:48:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Chrystian - SP - Brasilhttp://www.ducea.com/2006/05/21/moving-your-website-to-another-server-tune-your-dns-for-minimum-downtime/comment-page-1/#comment-182063 Chrystian - SP - Brasil Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:03:09 +0000 http://www.ducea.com/2006/05/21/moving-your-website-to-another-server-tune-your-dns-for-minimum-downtime/#comment-182063 Pessoal, esta dica foi muito util para que as publicacoes de DNS que fazemos sejam executadas em menos tempo. É importante lembrar que o TTL deve retornar ao valor original depois da propagação para evitar problemas com tráfego demais por tempo de expiração baixo.. Obrigado ;) Pessoal, esta dica foi muito util para que as publicacoes de DNS que fazemos sejam executadas em menos tempo. É importante lembrar que o TTL deve retornar ao valor original depois da propagação para evitar problemas com tráfego demais por tempo de expiração baixo.. Obrigado ;)

]]> By: flamehttp://www.ducea.com/2006/05/21/moving-your-website-to-another-server-tune-your-dns-for-minimum-downtime/comment-page-1/#comment-181704 flame Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:13:12 +0000 http://www.ducea.com/2006/05/21/moving-your-website-to-another-server-tune-your-dns-for-minimum-downtime/#comment-181704 @ yanni the necro poster: Public IP, retard. How else would the world find it? Windoze sucks, use *nix. Also, simpsons did it (with OS/2) @ yanni the necro poster: Public IP, retard. How else would the world find it? Windoze sucks, use *nix. Also, simpsons did it (with OS/2)

]]> By: yannihttp://www.ducea.com/2006/05/21/moving-your-website-to-another-server-tune-your-dns-for-minimum-downtime/comment-page-1/#comment-181546 yanni Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:20:07 +0000 http://www.ducea.com/2006/05/21/moving-your-website-to-another-server-tune-your-dns-for-minimum-downtime/#comment-181546 hello , plz help hv a question ... on my domain i want to assign nameservers ... so i made with 2003 a nameserver named ns1.circuitcity.gr but dont know what IP do i use ..nameserver IP = ???? pc static local ip ? pc primary dns ip ? or what ip ? THANK YOU hello , plz help hv a question … on my domain i want to assign nameservers … so i made with 2003 a nameserver named ns1.circuitcity.gr but dont know what IP do i use ..

nameserver IP = ???? pc static local ip ? pc primary dns ip ? or what ip ? THANK YOU

]]> By: - Marius -http://www.ducea.com/2006/05/21/moving-your-website-to-another-server-tune-your-dns-for-minimum-downtime/comment-page-1/#comment-178880 - Marius - Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:24:52 +0000 http://www.ducea.com/2006/05/21/moving-your-website-to-another-server-tune-your-dns-for-minimum-downtime/#comment-178880 @Sunil: that's true, there are things we can't control. In such cases, depending on the complexity and the need to redirect those users to the new site, you could run some sort of proxy (nginx, or even apache/mod_proxy) and send them to the real content.ps. from my experience those that still come to the old ip after a few days are just junk... normally spam bots that cache the ips to be fast and skip dns requests for ex.hth, - Marius - @Sunil: that’s true, there are things we can’t control. In such cases, depending on the complexity and the need to redirect those users to the new site, you could run some sort of proxy (nginx, or even apache/mod_proxy) and send them to the real content.

ps. from my experience those that still come to the old ip after a few days are just junk… normally spam bots that cache the ips to be fast and skip dns requests for ex.

hth,
- Marius -

]]> By: Sunilhttp://www.ducea.com/2006/05/21/moving-your-website-to-another-server-tune-your-dns-for-minimum-downtime/comment-page-1/#comment-178866 Sunil Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:42:30 +0000 http://www.ducea.com/2006/05/21/moving-your-website-to-another-server-tune-your-dns-for-minimum-downtime/#comment-178866 Thanks for sharing... We move many times many sites to different servers, in my experience it is the best way, but still you can get only 90-95 % your traffic moved with this. The rest is out of your control. The proxy servers, ISP or corporate DNS servers some time will not refresh as per the TTL. I have many experiences that I was getting traffic in old server after a week. But I don't know any other better way.RegardsSunil Thanks for sharing… We move many times many sites to different servers, in my experience it is the best way, but still you can get only 90-95 % your traffic moved with this. The rest is out of your control. The proxy servers, ISP or corporate DNS servers some time will not refresh as per the TTL. I have many experiences that I was getting traffic in old server after a week.
But I don’t know any other better way.

Regards

Sunil

]]> By: - Marius -http://www.ducea.com/2006/05/21/moving-your-website-to-another-server-tune-your-dns-for-minimum-downtime/comment-page-1/#comment-129845 - Marius - Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:38:20 +0000 http://www.ducea.com/2006/05/21/moving-your-website-to-another-server-tune-your-dns-for-minimum-downtime/#comment-129845 Tori: these are two different methods and basically they are both useful, depending where you have your DNS nameservers. If under your control, then you will be in charge of preparing properly the move (like I explained here), while if you have this on a specialized 3rd party provider you will expect them to do this automatically, like explained the article you linked. Still you will want to ensure that the service provider you choose is good enough and will not cause you more troubles... look for a specialized, well known provider in this case ;-).- Marius - Tori: these are two different methods and basically they are both useful, depending where you have your DNS nameservers. If under your control, then you will be in charge of preparing properly the move (like I explained here), while if you have this on a specialized 3rd party provider you will expect them to do this automatically, like explained the article you linked. Still you will want to ensure that the service provider you choose is good enough and will not cause you more troubles… look for a specialized, well known provider in this case ;-) .

- Marius -

]]> By: Torihttp://www.ducea.com/2006/05/21/moving-your-website-to-another-server-tune-your-dns-for-minimum-downtime/comment-page-1/#comment-129768 Tori Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:47:46 +0000 http://www.ducea.com/2006/05/21/moving-your-website-to-another-server-tune-your-dns-for-minimum-downtime/#comment-129768 I'm a bit of a newbie so this might be a stupid question but, what would be the difference between your method and using a failover DNS service (like mentioned in this post http://www.45n5.com/permalink/the-web-hosting-tutorial-that-doesn-t-suck.html)?Cheers, Tori I’m a bit of a newbie so this might be a stupid question but, what would be the difference between your method and using a failover DNS service
(like mentioned in this post http://www.45n5.com/permalink/the-web-hosting-tutorial-that-doesn-t-suck.html)?

Cheers,
Tori

]]> By: hungrycoderhttp://www.ducea.com/2006/05/21/moving-your-website-to-another-server-tune-your-dns-for-minimum-downtime/comment-page-1/#comment-94424 hungrycoder Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:53:10 +0000 http://www.ducea.com/2006/05/21/moving-your-website-to-another-server-tune-your-dns-for-minimum-downtime/#comment-94424 another method may work for dynamic site specially who dont have access to these options to change the ttl. the method are: move the mysql database to new server. change your site's mysql connection host to that new server. so your database contents are coming from the new server. now move files and change/update the name server.i think in this method no data will loss. another method may work for dynamic site specially who dont have access to these options to change the ttl.
the method are:
move the mysql database to new server. change your site’s mysql connection host to that new server. so your database contents are coming from the new server. now move files and change/update the name server.

i think in this method no data will loss.

]]> By: - Marius -http://www.ducea.com/2006/05/21/moving-your-website-to-another-server-tune-your-dns-for-minimum-downtime/comment-page-1/#comment-36781 - Marius - Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:43:57 +0000 http://www.ducea.com/2006/05/21/moving-your-website-to-another-server-tune-your-dns-for-minimum-downtime/#comment-36781 Rocky,Double check the authoritive DNS server configuration for the domain. Rocky,

Double check the authoritive DNS server configuration for the domain.

]]> By: Rockyhttp://www.ducea.com/2006/05/21/moving-your-website-to-another-server-tune-your-dns-for-minimum-downtime/comment-page-1/#comment-36698 Rocky Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:17:58 +0000 http://www.ducea.com/2006/05/21/moving-your-website-to-another-server-tune-your-dns-for-minimum-downtime/#comment-36698 Hey,Thanks very much for the very helpful post!We are a hosting company and I got a client who has a website up and running on another hosting company. Both her former server company and we are using Cpanel/WHM. The clients changed the domain registration information to direct it to our name server correctly. We modified the zone file as well. But one weeks past and the site is still accessible on both servers.Can you give me some hint on how to solve the problem please? Hey,

Thanks very much for the very helpful post!

We are a hosting company and I got a client who has a website up and running on another hosting company. Both her former server company and we are using Cpanel/WHM. The clients changed the domain registration information to direct it to our name server correctly. We modified the zone file as well. But one weeks past and the site is still accessible on both servers.

Can you give me some hint on how to solve the problem please?

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