Patent attributes
A method, system and computer product for a migration of a shared hosting environment with an IP change is provided. Migration is performed with the help of a special tool—the migrator. For each migrated domain on the source server, the TTL (time to live) values are decreased on the source DNS server. If possible, for a database server, a replication between the source and the target servers is set up for migrated databases. The migrator creates configuration of web sites and mail service on the target server and copies files and mail messages from the source to the target server; the migrator creates databases (if replication is not available) on the target server; and the migrator creates DNS zones with DNS records pointing to the target server. Once administrator checks that site works well on the target server, the migrator performs content sync and sets DNS zone on the source server as slave to DNS zone on the target server.
