I'd wait till 3am Sunday morning to make the DNS move so it can do it's magic when traffic is low. I'd also make sure both machines are running full versions of the sites. If someone gets to the old, they will not be penalized. Either that or have an auto-redirect on the old going to the IP of the new. > > I have to move a site to a new server with a different ip address. The > site has several domain names pointing to it. > > Would you just make a change in DNS and let the traffic slowly trickle > over to the new server or what? > > Just trying to get some thoughts on this before I do anything. If this > were a private site I wouldn't care but it happens to be one of the > company's biggest sites. > > -- > Phillip B. > >
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