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Originally Posted by Serena
Erm... that's not impressive. My site has high traffic and I don't really want it to be down. Can't this downtime be reduced? I heard something about changing "A" Records. What is it? Can it reduce my downtime? If yes, what do I need to do to change them?
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Yes the downtime can surely be reduced in case you are an existing customer. Pointing the 'A' records to the server where the website is hosted/migrated and then updating the nameservers helps in reducing the downtime. But, if you are switching from one host to the other, then in anycase you have to change the DNS, pointing 'A' records too is an option, but there is a chance of mistakes i.e. if your previous host makes some mistake, then the website would surely go down for an unestimated time.
It also depends on the type of web hosting plan too, for example if you are migrating the website between one VPS plan to another, you won't face any downtime.