I’m thinking of moving my domains over to CloudNord, from GoDaddy. I’ve wanted to move away from GoDaddy for years, but I’m afraid of breaking something, or losing email in the transition.
If I do it, I will also move my minecraft server from serverpro to cloudnord. That’s actually how I stumbled on the company, and then I noticed they also do internet domain hosting.
I too have been considering moving away from GoDaddy. If you make the move, please post how it went.
Can you “turn off” connections to GoDaddy yourself? That is, disable access in some fashion?
I mean, i think so, but not without reconnecting elsewhere. I need the domain to be valid, and i need certain information about it to make my email work.
I was thinking that you get your new connection set up while still maintaining GoDaddy; but once your connection is set up, you can “turn off” GoDaddy and see if anything breaks.
For the domain, you get it all set up on the new end, copy over all your settings etc. there’s nothing proprietary about GoDaddy, it’s the same everywhere.
Then you pull it from the new place. It’s a separate thing you need to do. That sends a pull request to GoDaddy, and as long as the conditions are met (generally the GoDaddy domian owners approval), it should move seamlessly. All that happens is that the main registries get updated to tell the Internet to use cloudnord now.
The only problem is sometimes isps cache data, so sometimes it can be a bit bumpy for a short period of time. Bit I’ve never had a problem.
For websites, you get the new website running. Test it by changing the DNS of the domain in your hosts file. This just tells your computer to skip asking the Internet (your domainregistrar) where the site is, and you go directly there.
Once the site is running, change the DNS of the website over to the new website, wherever your domain is registered. Again, sometimes isps will cache stuff so it can take a little while. A week before you move a website, in your domain registrat, set the refresh time to like 60 seconds. That tells isps to ask about the website if it’s been more than sixty seconds since they asked last. That makes them keep an eye out for your changes.
Don’t do both at the same time. So one then the other, some days or a week apart.
Hmm, does it matter that the domain is lucy.us, and the email is mail@lucy.us?
Not a bit.