For those of you who intend to host on the new server (which will, from this point forward, be referred to as inklog.net), please comment here or email me with the domain name(s) you will be intending to transfer. I will add your existing DNS records to the server and, when that is complete, ask you to switch your whois information over to our DNS servers. This way, when the time comes to move your data to the new server, we can decrease the amount of time it will take for DNS information to propagate the entire Internet which means we decrease the amount of time in which you have to pay for two services at once in order to avoid an outage.
I'll handle all of the domains for which I currently have admin privileges. This includes inklog.net, revjim.net, inkshop.org, taintedwords.net and sivatonight.com.
If you'd like technical details in regard to what is occuring, read on.
I'm going to mirror your CURRENT DNS information on the new server. However, I will be setting the TTL to one hour. This means that, whenever your current DNS record expires with the various DNS servers that have cached it, they will refresh their data. When this refresh occurs, they will receive data from the new server and will be informed to begin refreshing every hour (as opposed to whatever you currently have your refresh time set to). Then, when your website is actually transfered to the new server , and the DNS changes are made, the NEW information should be active within 2 hours, maximum (with the exception of some misbehaved DNS caches). During the transitionary period, not only are you paying for two services (which isn't really an issue since I'm not all that picky about when I start billing you), but, if you make updates to your site during that time, some portions of the Internet will not see those changes (which may include you, as odd as that sounds). Therefore, we want to keep the transitionary time to a minimum, and this is the best way to do that.
Thanks.
