Hello WDF,
I have a friend in the states who owns a small company doing local SEO work and sometimes webdesign. He recently did a small site for a Law Office. This Law Office hosted their own site (basic html only site) on their own Windows Server - a server that also handles their email, file storage and other.
The problem is that the site that was built for them requires a mySQL database and the Law Office's tech support is... inexperienced. Because of this I suggested to my friend that he takes over the hosting for the site, but only the site (not email etc). He is on a dedicated IP with GoDaddy.
I told him to create an account on his server using the domain name of the site, and get the Law Office to point a WWW record over to his server IP address. This way only the site's location will change, and all other things (such as email) will still be handled by the Windows Server. Was I wrong about this?
He created the account, and the WWW record was pointed to his IP, but now when you navigate to the site the message "Sorry this site is currently not available" appears (the same message that shows when navigating directly to the IP address).
What did they do wrong? Was there a better way to do this? Was the account on GoDaddy just made wrong? Was the WWW record supposed to be pointed to something like this: IPADDRESS/~domainname.com?
Any help or advice is much appreciated!