Hello,

I haven't tried this before.
Perhaps those of you who have done it can tell me.

What will happen if you take a colocated server and move it to another facility? (different company) Assume inside the server contains many hosting accounts, each has its own dedicated (static) ip.

How do you change ip for each account once at another facility?
Modify dns entries for each domain name is quite painful.
Is there a least painful method?

:cool:

Unfortunately, no. How many clients are on this server? I have a feeling that before it's over with, you may lose several.

"Static, Dedicated IP. What is that? A joke!? I'm outta here!"

I'd say you should have a file containing the list of old ip addresses and the new ip addresses something like

old.ip.addr.ess,new.ip.add.ress
.
.
.

Then run a shell script to change the addresses in your
- apache conf
- dns zone files
- proftpd
- /etc/localip (forgot what it is called)
- /etc/hosts

Anything else?

Then you have to inform everyone of this change and ask those who maintain their own Name servers to change their records

Then you will also have to move / change your name server ip addresses from your registrar.

Ideally you should have both the old and the new servers running at the same time (so you need two servers) when doing this move, and disable mysql or any dynamically updated data etc.

Most importantly, inform your customers way ahead of time e.g. 2 weeks so they would be prepared and help you (e.g. closing their message boards temporarily etc).

Good luck

I don't need to use/do it now.

I might have to face this in the future, so I want to know the best method to do it. :cool: