Hello, there. I'm about to migrate my forum to a new server and this is always a pain.

To minimize downtime, what do you guys do during the migrate?

My only plan was to close the board until the DNS pointing to the new server propagates.

This always generate complaints. Is there a better way?

Set the TTL on your domains A record to ~5 minutes now and give it 48-72 hours to propagate that change to clients before you migrate.

This will help minimize the amount of time it takes for your users to see the change once you flip the switch over to the new server.

You can use Cloudflare that will help a lot your forums as a CDN and has also some nice one click optimizations and they offer a free plan or you can use it only for the DNS records.

Dns records changes are getting active in seconds.

Edited October 23, 20204 yr by ASTRAPI