Betty1 Posted January 25, 2004 Share Posted January 25, 2004 When your domain has completed propagation? Do you get an e-mail or do you just have to keep checking? I'm getting anxious to start uploading files to my domain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted January 25, 2004 Share Posted January 25, 2004 Propagation, when switching from one host to another, can take up to 72 hours for each ISP to update their name servers. If you have a slight difference between your old site and the new one here, that will help see when it happens at your ISP. But you do not have to wait to upload, check your welcome e-mail for instructions on how to upload using your IP address ---- You can begin uploading your files at: ftp.yoursite.com or 66.246.35.30 (or whatever your IP address is) Please use the same User-name and Password as that above. Files for public access (your website) must be uploaded to the public_html directory. Files and directories outside the public_html directory are not accessible to the public. The www directory is just a link to the public_html directory. ---- hope this helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeJ Posted January 25, 2004 Share Posted January 25, 2004 If you changed the DNS servers for your domain via your registrar (or tranferred your domain from one registrar to another), you can check to see if those changes have been made by doing a Whois on your domain name and see if the new DNS servers are listed. Registrar changes are typically made once a day. Once that change has been made, typically the DNS will take a few hours to update throughout the system, but this is dependent on how the original provider had the expirations for your domain setup. If they have an exceptionally long expiration set, it may take a couple days before 100% of your site visitors will be hitting the new site. But to answer your direct question, you will not get any notice when your domain has propogated. You just have to check periodically to see when you will be able to access your domain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wigoweb Posted January 25, 2004 Share Posted January 25, 2004 I moved several sites from another host to TCH and will be moving more. When I set up the new site with WHM, I used the info given in the first messages I received from TCH after signing up to FTP directly to my new site on the TCH servers. Then, I just uploaded the files. I did edit each home page by putting in about 20 blank lines and then adding the text, "On New Server." Then, after I changed the DNS info with the registrar, I just keep checking the site. I would go to the site, look at the home page and scroll down to see if the new message was there. Very likely, no one else will see the message, as few people will scroll down a totally blank set of 20 lines. One site propagated in about 12 hours. That only happened once, though. Usually, I waited the full 36 hours before I saw the new site. I also created all the new email accounts for the new sites and had them ready to receive mail before changing the dns information. I left the old sites on the old server at the other host ( I am still paying for that server, too. ), so that I can go back and pick up any last email messages that my clients might have missed in the change over. So far, everything has worked very smoothly and no one has complained of missing any contacts. I switched to the UltraFormMail script with my contact forms which worked very well except that this script doesn't yet have the capability to write to an external file for a database. I really do need that feature and SureFire Web Design is working on it right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted January 25, 2004 Share Posted January 25, 2004 When I moved here, I changed the email at the old host to forward to my ISP, so I would continue to get any e-mail sent to the old host until the propagation was complete. I also set up a guestbook here, and linked to it at the site on the old host, so there would be no downtime for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty1 Posted January 26, 2004 Author Share Posted January 26, 2004 I'm such a dork I hadn't even purchased my domain yet Needless to say, I've already purchased it. Can't you tell I'm new to this whole thing? I used Tripod and I was used to that set up of having everything right there. Oh well...we learn everyday. Edited to say: This is my first domain here. So I'm just waiting on it to be activated. I'll check the welcome e-mail to see about uploading before my domain finally becomes active. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Dick Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 Another tip to avoid e-mail loss during the transfer time, keep your e-mail set up as is with your old host, and set up a new account with same e-mail address in your mail program using the IP address of the server of your TCH account. This way since DNS propagation doesnt all happen at the same time, no matter where the person sending e-mail to you is from, it wont matter if they are hitting the old mail server or the new, you'll get it either way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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