Anyone here switched hosts before?

[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

[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).

[SirMoby]

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

Didn't you black list once for doing exaclty that?

[terry]

I think I would rather have my teeth knocked out than deal with switching hosts.. I have always had bad experiences.
For example, I am currently moving my paysites from Swiftwill and I asked them for a root dump of my mysql database .. easy enough I thought, but apparently not the case. Even though it is my server I am not allowed to request a root dump, nor am I allowed shell access ... sound fishy to you? I bet it is. I have never had a problem with them till now.. whats up with that?

Anyway good luck on the server move thumbometer.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by SirMoby

Didn't you black list once for doing exaclty that?

Maybe?

Think of it this way - they're gonna get blacklisted anyway for the 404's - that's a given.

This way, at least they keep some of the traffic & the sites are open & when we run the Link Bot, we do try to look for things like this & then hold off on removing the sites.