Roughly 24 hours ago, I changed my hosting from Knowhost’s reseller plan to Knowhost’s VPS plan.

While both the servers were located in the same data center, ip address had to be changed and that included to the ip address of the custom nameservers I use. While I had gone ahead and lowered the TTL value of A records in my DNS zone (tutorial here), since it involved changing the nameserver ips, I ended up loosing some traffic. Since even though the ips in A zone were supposed to be refreshed every 15 minutes, same wasn’t the case with the nameserver ips.

The good thing is, I decided it to do it on weekend, when the traffic is already low so I didn’t lost as much traffic as I would have, had I switched during weekdays and I also kept my sites alive at the older account to ensure there was little loss of revenue.

So if you are planning to switch hosts/servers, make sure you do it during weekend and keep the old account alive to ensure those who come looking for your site, find one, even if it is at the old host.