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Dual site issue?? · **Released**: 01-17-2007

Im not head admin, so I cant exactly give specific details...

Early today, we decided to switch from sitegrounds (which have horrible hosting fyi, they said that the vb_posts table was taking too much bandwidth or something).

Well anyways, it now appears that we have two forums. Some members are on one, while others are on the "clone". Its very frustrating. I cant get to one without a proxy and others cant get to mine without the proxy. Dont get me wrong, there arent really two forums, its more of a parallel forum....

its exactly the same, except for all posts and changes made since the switch are divided among two different forums. For example, a post made where I am doesnt show up on the other place.

Its the exact same URL and everything, people are just divided up.

Help please!

COBRAws · #2 01-17-2007, 02:00 AM

The administrator didnt correctly update the DNS domains/ips so you still have the old site, and the new hosted site.

Some ISP's have the old IP and others have the new DNS's.
To avoid this from happening you should have had your DNS pointed to the new ones. That way, what you are telling us, wouldnt happen.

My 2 cents.

blockbusted · #3 01-17-2007, 02:13 AM

I actually did update them correctly.

It has only been a few hours, however. Could it just be that the site is not completely transferred?

(I am the root admin by the way.)

COBRAws · #4 01-17-2007, 03:19 AM

Did you completely close the old site and dropped the database? (so the old site is inoperative)

This is weird... I thought it was just a DNS problem.

Ntfu2 · #5 01-17-2007, 07:12 AM

If its only been a few hours, most DNS propagation takes slightly longer 24-72 hrs for most users.

You can edit the DNS zone files on the old servers to point to the new servers and force users over, or You can simply put up a temporary moving page on the old server informing them that the update is still in progress, and tell them to flush their cached dns information (Start -> Run -> ipconfig /flushdns)

blockbusted · #6 01-17-2007, 10:47 AM

Alright, thanks Ntfu. That's what I was looking for! Thank you so much.

COBRAws · #7 01-17-2007, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by blockbusted

Alright, thanks Ntfu. That's what I was looking for! Thank you so much.

then you did not close the old host. while moving servers.

blockbusted · #8 01-17-2007, 06:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by COBRAws

then you did not close the old host. while moving servers.

It shouldn't matter if I close the old one or not. The DNS should transfer without me having to close my old site.

COBRAws · #9 01-19-2007, 06:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blockbusted

It shouldn't matter if I close the old one or not. The DNS should transfer without me having to close my old site.

That is incorrect, due to technical issues on ISP's servers and DNS Flush'es. Doing what you did caused the problem. Next time you should close your old site and transfer visitors to the new IP and not the domain name.

Believe me, I've done this dozens of times.