[GTALUG] Web hosting questions

[Mauro Souza]

I've seen renew contracts getting cheaper, not the other way. Moore's law
at work. If your provider is asking for more, change the provider.

Copy all content from one site to the other, put an entry on /etc/hosts for
your domain, pointing to the new IP, and test everything.

Before the move, change the TTL for your domains for a small interval
(around 5 minutes). One of two days later,  when the DNS changes had
propagated and your tests passed, change the DNS records pointing to the
new IP and restore the TTL to the old value.

Why change the TTL twice? The first time is to tell every DNS server, cache
and client that a change is imminent. When you do the change, very few
clients will have the old IP on cache, as the record expires fast. The
second change is to bring things back to normal.

On Oct 30, 2017 08:39, "o1bigtenor via talk" <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

Greetings

I bought web hosting and registered 2 domains with a company. The domains
need to be renewed annually but the hosting is on a three year rotation.
The renewal is going to be about 2.7 x the original hosting contract.

Is this normal?
What do you of those that have a personal or small business website do - -
- move before renewal - - - or ?????

I have managed to setup a webserver here at home. I tried to use one of my
domains - - - that doesn't work because dns resolves to my host and not
here. Any suggestions on what and/or how to setup things to experiment here
before I go live with something?
(I want to try things like horde's webmail groupware (Have it installed
locally already) and other tools in the running of the business.)

TIA

Dee

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