moving domain to on-rev

Bill Marriott wjm at wjm.org
Tue Jun 30 17:55:50 EDT 2009


I'm not sure how my earlier post got mangled, perhaps spell checking? Here's 
a tidier version.

> There are two kinds of domains:
>
> - subdomain
> "mysite" is the subdomain of on-Rev in http://mysite.on-rev.com
>
> - add-on domain
> "mysite.com" is the domain of http://www.mysite.com
>
> An "add-on" domain is really what I would prefer to call a "true" domain.
>
> You cannot create a true domain on on-Rev without having the DNS pointing 
> to us. And cPanel won't complain if you follow these steps:
>
> 1. Create a SUB domain mysite. Put the folder at the top level like I 
> suggested.
> 2. Upload your files there
> 3. Verify everything works by going to http://mysite.on-rev.com
> 4. When you're satisfied it works, make no further changes to your site on 
> the original host
> 5. Switch the nameservers over to on-Rev
> 6. Set up an ADD-ON domain on on-Rev for mysite.com, pointing to your 
> existing folder.
>
> The DNS change will take 24-48 hours for everyone on the Internet to be 
> updated with your new address, but will occur instantly for many, and 
> within a couple hours for most. In the meantime, visitors will just see 
> your old site until their particular DNS server gets the updated 
> information, at which point they will go to your new site on on-Rev. They 
> should not get any errors if you follow this procedure. Use 
> mysite.on-rev.com for your own purposes (FTP, checking web pages) until 
> you are certain the DNS has been updated for yourself. I've followed this 
> process for a couple domains already and unless something has changed 
> recently, I know it works.





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