[linux-help] Re: Page redirect?

[Xjuzr@xxxxxxx]

Hello,
  There are several ways to do a redirect. But given your situation, just put 
the entire site on its new server, which will have it's own set of 
nameservers, then have the site/doamin owner change the domain record to 
reflect the new nameserver. This still leaves a set of files on the original 
host to ride out the contract and once the nameserver changes propagate, your 
site owner would have the full services of the new host.
  As a rule, I tell my clients who transfer to allow at least a week of lap 
time for file transfer, code modification and nameserver propagation to not 
have any downtime.
  That is the good side to this, which is no downtime during the nameserver 
switch. I always add some small thing that's different on the home page of 
the second set of files, so all I have to do to see for sure when the 
nameserver changes take effect, usually 12 to 36 hr., by just checking the 
URL to the home page. If I see my added exclamation mark on the title of the 
second set of files in my browser.


In a message dated 3/31/03 10:10:47 PM Central Standard Time, 
prenzl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:


> I'm trying to do a Web site for some people who are locked into a 
> "contract" with an overpriced Web hoster. The host offers practically 
> nothing other than ftping your files up. They even charge $3./mo. to 
> have email forwarding. Their server (MS/IIS?) also messes up the mime 
> when sending a .css file. Mozilla doesn't respond to "text" when it is 
> expecting "css", although IE doesn't panic, but I have to embed all css 
> in the actual files, which is a pain for updating. They basically get 
> business on the newbie myth that hosting has to be local. As if you 
> might need to hand-carry something over to them some day...Okay, I hate 
> them.
> 
> Anyway, I'd like a seamless way to move the entire site to my other Web 
> hosters and just redirect a page request from bad host to good host. (My 
> freinds aren't cool with moving the domain name until the "contract" 
> runs out.) I used to know about an html way to redirect, but can it be 
> really fast so people don't notice so much? Or is there some other idea 
> y'all know about?
> 



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