I understand the standard timeframe for domains to resolve to their ip takes 24-48hours, but the question is how to speed it up?? My webhost recently did a upgrade of servers or something and I thought they should be letting me know if there's any ip address changes but my domain was left to point to old server ip and I experience intermittent downtime for my websites and was told to update ip lol.....

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1. Did you already update your DNS records to point to the new server IP?
2. When you say intermittent downtime, are you saying that sometimes the domain name does point to the correct server, and other times it doesn't? If that's the case, it's likely not an issue with the DNS records.
3. Assuming you did update your records, I usually expect changes to propagate within 2 hours. It's not always the case, but *usually* it is.

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That sounds like a host issue that personally would just irritate me into leaving.

Maybe it's time you got a new host. Try justhost.com. They have excellent support, pretty much everything (disk, bandwidth, email, databases etc) unlimited, a money back guarantee (for your entire term, usable at any time for the remainder [you do lose $20 from the refund as a setup fee, which seem reasonable]).

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Just though I'd tell you since I've had a good experience with them.

I have already updated my nameservers with the new ip address, my main account domain name is already pointing to the new IP address, but other domains hosted under that main account aren't pointing to the new IP address yet and I have no idea why too and its more than a week I can say. The websites are intermittently accessible and down.

Razick thanks for sharing, will definitively take a look at Justhost

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The speed of DNS propagation has nothing to do with your web hosting provider - it has to do with how often your ISPs (and your user's ISPs) update their DNS cache. Most update every few hours, some update every few days. This is why new domains propagate nearly instantly - the ISP does not have a DNS record for that domain so it goes and fetches it, whereas older domains that have already been visited on that ISPs network will take longer.

But it is very strange that a hosting provider would be giving you IPs for the DNS servers instead of host names. If they used host names, they would only have to update the DNS entry for the host name on their end and you would never know the difference. But I guess there is a reason for everything

Hope that helps.

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Thanks guys, the IP has successfully resolved

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