Mon
Apr
28

2008

Avoiding problems when changing web hosts - Email

This is another useful trick to use when changing web servers (hosts) that I want to document:

When you change web servers, you need to change your domain to to point to your new host’s name servers. That in itself is simple: you log in to your domain registrar and change the nameserver setting to that of your new host.
But then there is a frustrating period of time called “propagation”. Propagation is the time it takes from when you make a change to your domain name pointers for all the DNS servers around the world. This time is usually from 4 to 48 hours, depending on how fast the DNS server you/your ISP uses updates.

But what happens to email sent to you during that propagation period?
Here’s how not to lose it…

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Fri
Apr
25

2008

Importing and Exporting big MySQL databases

This is really one of those situations where I’m recording useful information for my own easy recall at a later date – but hopefully it will be helpful for others elsewhere.

In essence, this is another simple guide on exporting and importing MySQL databases using the web servers command line.

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