Email migration

[Hamilton Taylor]

Hi all,

I'm new here, and a bit untechy, so go easy on me...

Due to a whole heap of bad stuff, I failed to pay my old host for one of my sites. I wanted to get a new host anyway, and chose eUKhost. I have a second site, on another host, which I'll come to in a bit.

Now, site1 gets (got) little traffic, but the email addresses associated with it are our main business emails. I have opted to move the domain to eUKhost, and been advised that I need to get the current hosts to 'point the IPS tag to ENOM'. I don't have access to the current host, because the hosting was resold to me by my site designer. I have asked him to ask them to do the IPS pointing thing, but have no way of knowing if that is getting done. Also, as my subscription has ended, I'm unsure if they will actually do it at all....

How long should I wait before I can reasonably expect my email accounts to be working again, so I know that, if they don't, it's my problem, not just that they've not been set up/propagated/pointed at or whatever?

The other question may not belong here, but I'm asking anyway
Site2 is a .com hosted in the Netherlands, so shows up better in the uk on whole web searches than on uk searches. It ranks quite well, though. I want to move it to eUKhost as well, to give it a better chance at ranking for uk searches (I was ignorant at the time...), is there anything I should do to minimise ranking slippage, or am I worrying too much?

Sorry for the long post, and thanks for any help you can give. Replies don't have to be quite in words of one syllable, but please understand I'm pretty new to all things websitey.

Thanks again,

Sean

[jc8654]

Hi Sean,
First off, depending on the domain, you should be able to check the IPS tag a number of ways. I'm presuming this is a .uk domain e.g. google.co.uk and as such, if you go to Nominet UK and then look up the WHOIS info on the right hand side, you will be able to see the IPS tag and can see if it's been changed. Once it is changed, the eUK guys here should hopefully have everything up pretty quickly as it's just a matter of getting it set up correctly to point to the new server. Unfortunately until the people you were with make the change, there isn't much you can do. If you could give us the domain name, we may be able to help a bit more.

Regarding the migration, changing servers shouldn't really matter to google. I doubt you'll slip at all but I'm not an expert in Search Engine Optimization so someone else may be able to answer this second part better.

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After looking at your profile, I thought it may be a .com domain and you can get info about the nameservers etc. at Whois.net. The one you have in your profile seems to be with a company b-one.nu still but I think this may be site 2?

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Hi Sean,

to the eUK Host Forums!

[Hamilton Taylor]

Thanks for the reply, and the welcome...

Sean