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Posted by Darren Healy
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Darren Healy
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 23,565 Points

Transferring web hosting but keeping site in place...How?

Hi there,

Looking for a little help from the community. I have a new client who used a web developer previously. My client has their website package hosted with this developer. Long story short they want to transfer the hosting package over to another vendor but keep the current site in place until such a time as the new site will be developed and completed by me.

I'm a little confused as to the best way to go about this. Would my client purchase a new hosting package from another vendor, and then go back to the previous developer to 'point' the site to this new hosting package?

If someone could give me an answer with a little detail and a steer in the right direction on resolving this that would be great.

Darren

7 Answers

Thomas Ireland
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Thomas Ireland
Thomas Ireland
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Hi, Darren

If I understand you correctly, if your client is intending to have a new website built, but keep the existing one in place, you would leave the existing one as-is until you're ready to move over to the new one.

All you'd need to do is point the existing domain name to the new server and that would involve updating the A records for the domain. Updating the A records is simply linking the domain to a different IP address. That is quite a simple thing to do.

If the domain is owned and looked after by the previous web developer, you would want them to transfer ownership of the domain back over to the client, really. That may also involve changing the domain nameservers, too.

Hope that helps and do let me know if you have any more questions.

Cheers

Tom

Darren Healy
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Darren Healy
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Thanks Tom. Fellow Scot?

Thomas Ireland
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Nae worries. Aye, Darren. From the north-east - near Inverness.

Darren Healy
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Cool stuff. From Glasgow myself. I didn't think I'd cross paths with anyone from the homeland on here. Been coding long?

Thomas Ireland
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Neither did I! I live up in Forres, right on the Moray coast.

I've been coding on-and-off for 3+ years, but I have quiet spells where I'm really busy doing other stuff and not focussing on personal development, so I end up getting rusty.

I've been working in a new job for the last 3 months that has got my juices flowing again. I work in support, but very close to developer's, so it's great for learning.

How about you, man?

Darren Healy
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Well I've been around the world of coding and development for so long that it made sense to learn to do it myself. As far as real experience goes I've been doing it about a month and a half; or as long as I've been on Treehouse! Enjoying it though, I'm just working through the web design track at the moment. The CSS deep dive has a lot to take in!

Thomas Ireland
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Good, man! Well, keep it up. Sometimes it feels like you'll never break through the wall and then something just clicks! Keep it up pal and just shout of you want a hand with anything.

Darren Healy
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Darren Healy
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Will do, thanks.

Thomas Ireland
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Also, whenever you feel like it, check out a couple of CSS folks. Harry Roberts, Nicole Sullivan (OOCSS) and Jonathan Snook (SMACSS). They are legends in the CSS world and provide loads of resources e.g. blog posts, books etc. that can help in writing good CSS. Probably one's to look at when you have worked through CSS deep dive, got some good knowledge and practice - more importantly.

Darren Healy
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That's great, I'll add them to my reader!