The process of moving the
domains from one hosting account to another is below. Certain steps
may vary depending on what exactly you are trying to accomplish.
- Create a new account.
- Publish the content of the web sites to the new account.
- If the account has a primary domain and you are moving some
additional domains from one accont to this account, you can
create mailboxes before you have the domains moved.
- Download all mail from the existing mailboxes. It is possible
that you will not be able to connect to mailboxes after the
domains are moved.
- Remove the domains from the original account and add them
to the new account.
- Create mailboxes on the new mail server that was setup in
the previous step.
- Change the redirect script on the original account to redirect
the requests for the moved domains to the IP address of the
new server. This will help to smooth DNS transition. You can
also replace specific pages with the redirect to the new URL
using the IP address of the new server.
The DNS transition will take 36 to 48 hours if everything goes
right and there are no DNS problems on DNS servers where the entries
are cached. It takes 24 hours at the most to update UCVHost
DNS servers.
Some mail messages may be bounced (rejected) by the mail servers
during the DNS update. There is no way to predict which messages
coming from where will be rejected. There is no control over the
DNS update process once it is initiated; it cannot be sped up.