upr00ted

I never cease learning. Today I woke up worrying about a site I just moved to a new server. For some reason the DNS hadn’t propagated overnight. In my experience this usually takes a couple hours at most. After dinking around for a couple of minutes wondering if it was ever going to change, a light bulb went off in my head. Why not use the new DNS server as my DNS server, then I would be sure to get the moved site as opposed to the old site.

The additional benefit of this thought cloud is raining down on me harder than the deluge outside. This is AMAZING! This means that whenever I move a site I can move it to the new server, tell that host that the site is going to be moved so they update their DNS servers, and then before I ever actually switch over, I can plug in their DNS server into my Network Control Panel and see and work on the new site as it will appear until I’m satisfied and then I can make the official switch later.

Have a great weekend everyone.