Anyone here switched hosts before?

[GeorgeTH]

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).