I'm considering moving hosts to hostony, but the question I have is pretty much generic for moving any database driven site from one host to another.
I know that once you change nameservers,it takes a few days to have it go into effect,but if someone is on my site at the time that the redirect occurs, and then from one link to another, is sent to the new host, will that cause problems, beyond the fact that the database on the "new" site will be older than the one on the original site?
What would be the best way to do this move,while still keeeping the main site live and transacting business?
My current site is hosted on windows box, and located in Ireland. I'll be moving to a Windows box located in USA (80%+ of my visitors are from the States).
Is it possible to have the database hosted in one place, and the site calling to it from another IP, or would that degrade speed too much? I could see how that would make migration possible, but am not sure how to go about it.
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