[plug] hosting

[Gregory Orange]

Patrick Coleman wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Gregory
> Orange<gregory.orange at rpsmetocean.com> wrote:
> I'll take this opportunity to plug my company, Labyrinth Data
> (http://ld.net.au) :)
> It sounds like we could host your site on one of our shell plans, for
> $11/month; we alternatively do virtual private servers starting at
> $29/month. We currently offer a first-month-free promo to SAGE-AU
> members, and we can probably do the same for PLUG members.

Shameless self-plug welcome (: Thanks for some numbers which we can use 
to compare (I don't yet know what's on offer from the site builder). I'm 
a SAGEr and PLUGer, in fact I posted a similar message to both lists.


> What you can do is take a dump of the database and tar up the site,
> but leave the old site running (possibly in a read-only mode). Then
> get the new site running, and change the DNS to point there. As the
> DNS propagates (you can speed this up by reducing the TTL to eg. 10
> minutes before you start) customers will seamlessly move to the new
> site without downtime.
> 
> Obviously any database changes to the old site after you dump the
> database won't be carried across; this may or may not be an issue for
> you.

Cool, that all makes sense which means I'm vaguely on the right track. 
I'll need to understand DNS better later, but for now that's plenty. 
Thank you.

Cheers,
Greg.