Yeah there’s a million articles on how to handle site migrations and dns migrations, here’s the easiest way I know how.
1. Copy your DNS rules from old host to new host (or hardware to hardware)
2. Copy your files
3. change your DNs.
See no problem whatsoever right? Well what’s the easiest way to check to see if things have resolved? Some people are big fans of adding a tiny change to their sites, an emoticon or something of that magnitude. There’s an even simpler solution (especially if you’re doing a large number of sites all at once.
Simply make a pair of readme.txt files.
The first one goes on your existing host and simply says “Current Host”
The other one goes on your new host and says “New Host”
Yeah not exactly the most groundbreaking solution in the history of ever but it’s quick, simple and most importantly, you can keep those 2 files in your main sites folder on your dev box without even thinking about them until such time that you need ‘em.
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