cornersoyo
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Hello,
It seems we are about to have an order placed for the VPS XLtx w/cpanel. We discussed with 2 others that the Texas site might be most reliable for throughput, which is more important than bandwidth for us (plus TX pings 55 to us, CA pings 80). I hope we are making sense in using these reasons for choosing Texas?? because we are obviously giving up the 2x bandwidth of CA for this choice.
With that said, I am 100% NEWB with VPS - I have read posts here and tried to understand the process that is to follow. I apologize for what is probably redundant attempt at this, but I am hoping someone might look at the steps I am expecting and tell me if I am in the ballpark?
1) In first page of placing the order it asks for a domain. I'm guessing this would be considered our 'Primary' domain we plan to use on our VPS correct?
2) If you could please tell me if I will be doing this right I would be gratefull:
a) When the signup asks for domain, we enter the domain of the existing site which we want to eventually be the primary on this new VPS, for now we will call www.existingdomain.com, and choose the 'change nameserver later' option.
b) At some point after order is done, we get assigned (2) I.P. numbers
c) We go to Godaddy.com, where we registered "www.existingdomain.com", and choose the option to 'create a host' for existingdomain.com, during which process we enter NS1.existingdomain.com, and then apply the first I.P. number, then add again, entering NS2.existingdomain.com and apply the second I.P. number.
d) At this point our request is submitted, and after propogation, our VPS will eventually have "ns1.existingdomain.com" & "ns2.existingdomain.com" as it's nameservers, where we are to point all domains we want to host.
e) Now, we are hoping at this point that our existing website for www.existingdomain.com is still operating and reachable with our old host still, because it still has the DNS of the old host applied to it.
f) We put our site in a 'Changing Servers' mode to stop usage (this is ok, it is quite new and users know we are doing this) copy the files from www.existingdomain.com to the proper folder(s) on our new VPS using the direct I.P. numbers to access. I'm not clear yet on how this will function/look, but I am hoping we will be able to do this through cpanel, which will allow us to specify the domain name etc.?
g) Once in place, we go back to Godaddy, and change the nameservers for www.existingdomain.com to ns1.existingdomain.com and ns2.existingdomain.com
h) and at some point propogation finalizes and that domain becomes attached to the new VPS.
Is that how it is supposed to work?
I did read some articles within this forum of how to make the transfer happen with little downtime, so maybe I can re-read those and get a better understanding of the process.
I am trying to understand this on my own which is why I have listed the steps vs. simply asking for help - I've tried to understand more compact explanations but sadly my mind doesn't work like it did when I was in my younger years.
Thank you for any thoughts to this...
Cornelius R. Soyo
It seems we are about to have an order placed for the VPS XLtx w/cpanel. We discussed with 2 others that the Texas site might be most reliable for throughput, which is more important than bandwidth for us (plus TX pings 55 to us, CA pings 80). I hope we are making sense in using these reasons for choosing Texas?? because we are obviously giving up the 2x bandwidth of CA for this choice.
With that said, I am 100% NEWB with VPS - I have read posts here and tried to understand the process that is to follow. I apologize for what is probably redundant attempt at this, but I am hoping someone might look at the steps I am expecting and tell me if I am in the ballpark?
1) In first page of placing the order it asks for a domain. I'm guessing this would be considered our 'Primary' domain we plan to use on our VPS correct?
2) If you could please tell me if I will be doing this right I would be gratefull:
a) When the signup asks for domain, we enter the domain of the existing site which we want to eventually be the primary on this new VPS, for now we will call www.existingdomain.com, and choose the 'change nameserver later' option.
b) At some point after order is done, we get assigned (2) I.P. numbers
c) We go to Godaddy.com, where we registered "www.existingdomain.com", and choose the option to 'create a host' for existingdomain.com, during which process we enter NS1.existingdomain.com, and then apply the first I.P. number, then add again, entering NS2.existingdomain.com and apply the second I.P. number.
d) At this point our request is submitted, and after propogation, our VPS will eventually have "ns1.existingdomain.com" & "ns2.existingdomain.com" as it's nameservers, where we are to point all domains we want to host.
e) Now, we are hoping at this point that our existing website for www.existingdomain.com is still operating and reachable with our old host still, because it still has the DNS of the old host applied to it.
f) We put our site in a 'Changing Servers' mode to stop usage (this is ok, it is quite new and users know we are doing this) copy the files from www.existingdomain.com to the proper folder(s) on our new VPS using the direct I.P. numbers to access. I'm not clear yet on how this will function/look, but I am hoping we will be able to do this through cpanel, which will allow us to specify the domain name etc.?
g) Once in place, we go back to Godaddy, and change the nameservers for www.existingdomain.com to ns1.existingdomain.com and ns2.existingdomain.com
h) and at some point propogation finalizes and that domain becomes attached to the new VPS.
Is that how it is supposed to work?
I did read some articles within this forum of how to make the transfer happen with little downtime, so maybe I can re-read those and get a better understanding of the process.
I am trying to understand this on my own which is why I have listed the steps vs. simply asking for help - I've tried to understand more compact explanations but sadly my mind doesn't work like it did when I was in my younger years.
Thank you for any thoughts to this...
Cornelius R. Soyo