Domain and Hosting at different Providers

[Martin Brinkmann]

The domain name and hosting is currently @ godaddy. My blog is unfortunatly creating to much traffic for a hosted account and godaddy already suspended it, without prior notification of course, for some hours.

I ordered a dedicated server at another company and am currently waiting that the setup is completed.

I then would like to cancel the hosting account and redirect the domain to the dedicated server. The prob, i´ve never done that before and would like to hear the experts on this subject.

Do I have to change the nameservers at godaddy and configure the dedicated server somehow ? It seems to me that a simply meta tag or htaccess redirect wont be the best solution, your opinion on that ?

thanks in advance for your insight

 

[Kate]

What you need is to change the DNS where your domain is currently registered (that is godaddy) to point to the new host. Your new host will provide you with the information. Unless you run your own DNS server on your dedicated server.

 

[Domainating]

Go to your GoDaddy account and click on the domain. In the right hand panel you will see its info. The DNS sdinc correctly refers to stands for Domain Name Servers. Under that heading (Domain Name Servers or Name Servers) click on "Click to view or change" or something like that. You will be presented with the option to setup your own Name Servers. You will need at least 2. With Custom Name Servers checked you can enter in the new Name Servers and then be sure to save the changes.

It may take up to 48 hours for the name change (or possibly 72 hours world wide), but I notice that GoDaddy Name Server updates happen really quickly for me.

-Doug

 

[Martin Brinkmann]

thanks for the tips guys.

I enabled simple forwarding for some smaller domains and its ok this way.
I changed nameservers for a bigger domain, did not configure my own using bind but used the ones from my rootserver provider. Not sure if this will work out well but I wanted to try it.
I tried configuring bind today and its a pain in the ***

 

[localpub]

I tried configuring bind today and its a pain in the ***

Well, it is NOT. It's mostly 2 text files.

Question: why did you get an UNMANAGED dedicated server? Bind is only rather VERY small thing, compared to everything else. I think you'll realise this rather soon.

Advice: get a sysadmin ASAP. Unless you want your server hacked, compromised and used for something you don't intend to.

 

[Martin Brinkmann]

yes I do understand that I have to learn quickly and that Iam currently unprepared for things to come.

The facts:

I don´t want to pay a sysadmin.
I have to move my website to a ded. server.
I´am a fast learner, I know how to google and search for information myself.

The truth:

I learned a lot in the last two days, I´am able to configure virtual hosts, mysql databases, ftp access.

I changed the A Record for my domains that are hosted at godaddy to my server and its working

I have friends that will secure my server, so that is not a big problem.

What I have to do myself:

Figure out how to configure mail accounts

 

[jmweb]

yes I do understand that I have to learn quickly and that Iam currently unprepared for things to come.

The facts:

I don´t want to pay a sysadmin.
I have to move my website to a ded. server.
I´am a fast learner, I know how to google and search for information myself.

The truth:

I learned a lot in the last two days, I´am able to configure virtual hosts, mysql databases, ftp access.

I changed the A Record for my domains that are hosted at godaddy to my server and its working

I have friends that will secure my server, so that is not a big problem.

What I have to do myself:

Figure out how to configure mail accounts

Chances are you don't actually have to move to a dedicated server, and this can break your site very easily.

A lot of web hosting (excluding us) oversell their servers so that if your site starts to use a little bit of resources, they will suspend you. For the cheaper hosts, that means you have less resources to use. But as you get into more quality/more expensive hosts, that means you have more resources.

For instance, there was a thread on namepros where it was asked how many accounts you can put on one server. The hosts offering the too good to be true deals said a very large amount of accounts, whereas the reliable/professional hosts said a lot less then the too good to be true hosts. The less accounts on a server, the more resources you can use.

Onto the server, I think this was a bad idea for you. If your site goes down at 3am, and your asleep, who is going to bring it online for you? Probably no one, until you wake up. So, say you wake up at 7am each morning, thats 4 hours of downtime.....

This may not happen right off, but problems don't occur during them "im ready for a problem moments", they occur when you least expect it. For instance, last year our admin was on vacation and I had a part-time admin doing some work.
I had plans that night to attend the best seats in the house for a race (up with the time keepers). Sadly 5 minutes before I was due to be at the race, the server went down. And obviously I had to turn around on the road and head back to fix the issue. I ended up missing the race to ensure my clients receive 99.9% uptime.

 

[Martin Brinkmann]

Well I don´t have clients, just visitors, downtime is nothing I want to experience but if it happens it does not affect me that much. My website was using 25% of the ressources of that server at peak times which is to much, even for a professional host.

Another thought that I had was to move all my hosting accounts to the dedicated server. This way I almost have the same amount of monthly payments for my websites than before.