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Originally Posted by Greenguy
You could use htaccess to redirect everything form the old host to the new one until the dns propagates - I think this is all you have to do:
Redirect / http://66.115.135.176/
(of course replacing your IP with the one I have i there)
This way, at least you're not 404'ing & loosing all your traffic  |
Exactly what I wanted to say!
Even as a newbie I got to learn this little trick quickly...
Before I used to put a meta-refresh to numeric IP on all pages - but that gets you blacklisted with everybody running scanner scripts (eg. LL and TGP submissions).