Move Cloudron... 1 app of 14 uses manual DNS

[Shai]

I'm planning to move my 14-app Cloudron to a new server.

All of the apps use Cloudron's amazing automated remote DNS record creation/deletion service... except for one app.

There could be a delay of a few days or a week before I can get the person who has access to the DNS records for me to walk him through changing the DNS for the one manual app..

I don't want to wait a week to migrate.

Can I have 13 apps running on the new server and the 1 app running on the old server for a week. Will that work? Thoughts?

[d19dotca]

That has worked for me. I have two domains in which I don't have control over the DNS records, so I have to wait for someone else to make the changes. In general, I've just asked them to make the changes and still migrate the data while keeping the old one in-place for now until the change is made.

Edit: I suppose this also depends on the type of application too. So if it's just a static website or something, probably no worries at all. However if it's an e-commerce store or some storage app like NextCloud, then once they make the changes in their DNS, you may still need to do one final copy from the old server to the new server for just the particular app to avoid any lost information.

[Shai]

Thx. How will I access the control panel on the original server because the dns for the control panel url will have been moved to the new server?

[d19dotca]

@Shai You would need to edit your local computers /etc/hosts file and add in the old IP address of the previous Cloudron install for the domain name that you’d type in the browser bar. Then you should be able to use the hostname to still access the older Cloudron server.