In the past 24 hours or so, my brother and I went through a list of about 200 domains and moved all of them, except about 15 - which we are waiting on. We are moving to new managed hosting provider and we need to move the name servers as well.
The past week we moved all the sites, including this blog, to the new servers. We first updated the old name servers to point the sites to the new IP address, or the new servers. Once that was set and everything was tested as working, we imported all of our name server records (about 200) and moved them all. Keep in mind, we don't act as the name server for all our sites, but probably most of them.
I would say about half of those domain names were easy to move, because either the client made the change in their domain registrar or I had access to make those changes for them. The other half required me to obtain the registrar login information from the customer. Most of them have no clue what a domain registrar is anyway, so getting that information - was not fun.
In any event, we are almost done - only have 17 domain names left. Once we move the rest off, then we are freed completely from our old hosting provider. As you can tell, I am looking forward to that day. My realistic goal is to be freed completely no later then this Monday.



Comments
So we can expect a post about the old and the new providers, I hope.
Maybe a warning to other people and why you selected the new host
Posted by: Jonathan Dingman | June 26, 2008 12:28 PM
What do you think? :)
Posted by: Barry Schwartz | June 26, 2008 12:29 PM
I'm looking into moving about 20 or so smaller sites to new hosting. Anyone you can recommend?
Posted by: VaBeachKevin | June 26, 2008 12:32 PM