Drizzle Internet NW - FAQ-Website transfer?

I'm transferring my website to Drizzle from another host. How will this work?

Give us a call, set up a Drizzle account, and we'll take care of transferring your domain for you. You probably established a login and password with the registrar when you registered the domain name. We will need that information to access your account and make the updates.

We will submit new technical contact information and domain name server information to the registrar. The registrar will then send an e-mail to each contact on the record for the domain to confirm the legitimacy of the change request. When your administrative and/or technical contact replies to the authorization, it will be processed. If after replying to the authorization, you have not received confirmation from Drizzle within 72 hours, please contact us.

While the domain transfer is in process, your site will continue to be accessible from your old host's server. As soon as the transfer is completed by the registrar, Drizzle will get the information about that transfer being completed, we'll configure your site on our servers so the domain name points to us, and then the world will start to see your site from our servers. The down time during this transfer process is most often significantly less than a day. Most transfers go very smoothly and quickly.

You will need to set up your web site on the Drizzle server. You don't have to wait for your domain to be configured with us to put up the fies for your web site. You can post them to the Drizzle server as soon as your account here is created. Until the domain transfer is processed, you can upload files to your public_html directory at:

http://www.drizzle.com/~userid

where userid is the userid you chose when you signed up with Drizzle. For more specifics on transferring files, check out our FAQs on FTP and setting up a website.

If you have your site installed on the Drizzle server BEFORE the transfer is completed, there will be no "downtime" for your site.

Once the transfer is completed, it may take awhile for all Internet service providers worldwide to update their DNS lookup cache. We recommend that you not take your old site down for at least 72 hours after the transfer.

Please keep the information associated with your domain current with your registrar. Changes in address, phone number, contacts and personnel can create major headaches in the future when domain modifications are required.