At the end of November last year I moved my main site to new hosting, changed the DNS and it all went very well.
Everything I read said that within a couple of weeks, traffic to the old host should dwindle to nothing and I could stop keeping the old version of the site updated.
Now, nearly 3 months later I am still getting 400-500 visits a day to the old hosting and I'm getting tired of keeping two versions up to date. However I don't much want to lose 12,000+ visitors a month either!
Is this normal? and is there anything I can do about it?
Re: Moved My Site, traffic still going to old hosting
easy way to resolve this is to setup a redirect, this will remove all search engine links to the old pages and recognise the new pages (as this is the only way I can think why they would be accessing the old hosting)
usualy if youve changed hosting the url should automatically work for the new hosting unless youve changed site name also.
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Re: Moved My Site, traffic still going to old hosting
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I could stop keeping the old version of the site updated.
ie the meta refresh to the new pages on the old version of the site, sorry Im confused now. you state you wanted to stop updating an old version of a site, surely this is where the traffic is going, this wouldnt be an endless loop if it refreshes the user to the new replacement content?
what do you mean exactly about the old site, are they just old irrelivant pages, a site on a seperate server (where you set the old server to refresh to the current servers version of the pages) or what
sorry if Im easily confused.
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Re: Moved My Site, traffic still going to old hosting
Did you change just the name servers or did you move to a different registra? Cos it its very wierd for people to be still getting through to your old site I/P.
Do you know if all the visitors are from a different country perhaps?
Re: Moved My Site, traffic still going to old hosting
Ive just thought of something, is the old traffic registering as www.yoursite.com or yoursite.com perhaps your ip landing isnt setup correctly in the dns?
you may get the traffic for www going to the new server and anyone not typing that going to the old. simple way around this is to setup a * A record in your dns and point it to your new server to catch the non www traffic if this is the case? or maybe you have 2 a records for www pointing to different IP addresses? in which case delete the old ip.
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Re: Moved My Site, traffic still going to old hosting
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Originally Posted by Jacqui
At the end of November last year I moved my main site to new hosting, changed the DNS and it all went very well.
Everything I read said that within a couple of weeks, traffic to the old host should dwindle to nothing and I could stop keeping the old version of the site updated.
Now, nearly 3 months later I am still getting 400-500 visits a day to the old hosting and I'm getting tired of keeping two versions up to date. However I don't much want to lose 12,000+ visitors a month either!
Is this normal? and is there anything I can do about it?
Jacqui
If youve got 2 copies of the site going at he same time then you havent done things correctly as barry said its pretty weird to have traffic going to the old host in fact its impossible really as its all controlled by the nameservers unless of course you was using free web hosting in which case the se have proberly copied the free hosting url and not your domain url to get around this if this is the case you would have to
1. point the nameservers to your new domain location name propagation takes about 2 days for all top level nameservers to become aware of the changes.
2. redirect all pages from the free hosting url to point to their new location
this can be done fairly easily if you have access to the .htaccess file
3.stop updating the old site as you shouldnt have 2 copies of the same site running or risk the penalty of duplication
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