When the stream becomes a river….

A reader writes:
“My old webhost told me that once I’d transferred to the new host, I’d have to ‘refresh’ my DNS. I tried hitting ctrl+f5 but that didn’t work. Can you help?

Hi there!
Ctrl+f5 is the windows browser refresh, its not quite the same as what your old host means. However, its hard, sometimes, to tell when you’ve moved.

There’s a simple way to check whether you’ve moved. Firstly you can check your nameservers (after changing them) at http://dnsreport.com - this site will let you see lots of information about your server that is hosting you.