Richard G
Verified User
Changing TTL is an option, indeed, but I'm not sure anymore if that helps if big providers only pull once every 4 hours on the big DNS servers.
Some time ago I change TTL to 5 minutes a couple of days before transferring and it still took 2 hours to resolve with my isp. So this added to my confusion.
Moving almost never happens unless we move servers which does happen only once every 3-5 years. I can lower TTL, will be faster then, but still we don't loose data.
After you explained how you did it, it seems also a good way to me, but since we don't have a lot of dynamic stuff and never had issues I'll keep doing it my way for the time being. I will just try SSL again.
Some time ago I change TTL to 5 minutes a couple of days before transferring and it still took 2 hours to resolve with my isp. So this added to my confusion.
Mostly yes. there are a couple of forums, but they are from our country. And since I do movements on night time, there is no activity at night. Also when they get moved (same as webshops) I notify them, just like other customers way up front, so on forums they can post a message to not post anything that night or something like that. We never had data loss until now.How can you have all the data if you leave the web server and mysql still running on the old server while you do the transfer? Are you running just static sites?
Moving almost never happens unless we move servers which does happen only once every 3-5 years. I can lower TTL, will be faster then, but still we don't loose data.
This could also be done on an automated process. However, I presume this is the downtime it takes then. I don't use this because during this time the website isn't visible or reachable by anybody, not even by Google. If this indeed takes a couple of minutes, it's no problem, especially at night time.then suspend the user so that the data is frozen and no changes are made.
After you explained how you did it, it seems also a good way to me, but since we don't have a lot of dynamic stuff and never had issues I'll keep doing it my way for the time being. I will just try SSL again.
Because otherwise we could not create feature requests.Guys why life is so complicated ?