Thumper
8th October 2009, 08:01 PM
Hiyas folks :) Just letting you know there may be some downtime over the next few daysw. We're currently moving the site from my webhosting to Jenny's, and although they're with the same hosting company there will have to be a DNS change, which means, the location where your isp looks for this site will have to change. While it's changing you may get the old site or the new.
There's about 13 super computers around the world that store the location of every web site in the world and it can take up to 3 days for all 13 super servers to update a site to it's new location. If your isp contacts a super server with the old location, you will get sent to the old hosting, if it contacts one with the latest location you will get the new hosting.
Of course, computers have a habit of caching everything, including your pc and your isp so this can further complicate things but still, after 3 days everything should be fine.
I am about to get the host to move the sites, depending on when they have moved the sites I will change the DNS to the new location, after that you may notice posts disappearing and reappearing as you get shuffled from old to new host and back again. For most though you probably won't notice it too much :)
There's about 13 super computers around the world that store the location of every web site in the world and it can take up to 3 days for all 13 super servers to update a site to it's new location. If your isp contacts a super server with the old location, you will get sent to the old hosting, if it contacts one with the latest location you will get the new hosting.
Of course, computers have a habit of caching everything, including your pc and your isp so this can further complicate things but still, after 3 days everything should be fine.
I am about to get the host to move the sites, depending on when they have moved the sites I will change the DNS to the new location, after that you may notice posts disappearing and reappearing as you get shuffled from old to new host and back again. For most though you probably won't notice it too much :)