I am frantically running from dreamhost and their horrible products - but this leaves me with a interesting situation:
1 Website is 'fully hosted' through their webpanel - this auto creates the 'A' record to their server - this points to the correct folder where the web files are at
2 New site has been tested and ready to receive web traffic
3 clicking 'dns only' removes the A and allows me to point it to the new record, but also removes the web folder location
4 thus when a client hits the old A record they are pointed at a silly robot error message that the website has gone missing instead of rendering the old site.
5 I have request them to modify the apache file, modify the A record, do something for me and they could care less and tell me to have a "great day!"
What can I do to have a better transition away from this horrible company? Can I supply both A records, and then yank the one out in a day? Do I need to move the nameservers to a new server and try and tackle this from a different angle?
