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paulk7737514
paulk7737514
Inspiring
April 29, 2019
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Best Way To Build Website

  • April 29, 2019
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I am building a new website for a client. I will need to transfer the domain name to a new reseller account, created by me, but I don't want the current site to go down because there is a lot of content to scrape, especially in the way of downloadable files.

Should I just build the site locally before transferring the domain to the new registrar? Or should I contact the present registrar to make sure the domain name won't get decoupled from the current website just because it is transferred to a new registrar?

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osgood_
Legend
April 29, 2019

Do you have access to the current website i.e., ftp/control panel?

If so do as Birnou suggests, download and transfer the current files onto the new hosting server, then instruct whoever is responsible to point the domain at the new servers. That should guarantee a seamless approach.

Work on the new website locally, test (I assume that will take several weeks) and when youre ready upload it and remove the old files. Its up to the old host to remove the old files from their server.

You could of course do nothing until the new website is near finished (you might have to if the old website is using old database code, such as mysql) but personally I like to jump ahead just to ensure things are running smoothly and I'm not wasting my time.

paulk7737514
paulk7737514Author
Inspiring
April 29, 2019

I'm building the site in a hosting account in a GoDaddy reseller account and transferring the domain to the registrar which is used for the GoDaddy reseller (Wild West Domains). Ideally I'd like to keep the domain DNS pointing at the old site (different hosting provider) until I'm ready to launch the new one, but I don't want to take a chance and transfer the domain to Wild West Domains and for whatever reason it no longer points to the old site.

I guess the best solution would be just to work on the website locally, then transfer the domain name and FTP the new site files to the new hosting provider account.

B i r n o u
B i r n o u
Legend
April 29, 2019

the new web hosting can create a temporary alias URL to this new location... then , and only then, when the new web site will be ready to be public , the password protected access will be removed and the DNS changed

B i r n o u
B i r n o u
Legend
April 29, 2019

Simply put in place a process to follow such as:

  1. stop updating the old web site
  2. clone the current web site locally
  3. adjust all the new web site locally as you need
  4. upload the new content to the new web location
  5. change the DNS to point at the new web location
  6. once the domain respond to the new location (full propagation is more or less 48 hours) remove the old web site
  7. start updating the new web site as needed
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