On 9/30/2015 3:36 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > I couldn't agree more with all the warnings that have been posted. However, > it may simply be that they want to build a new website and they want to > redirect your DNS from your currently hosted server to theirs.
You mean change the DNS servers at the Domain Registrar? That would be even worse - they would need to completely reproduce everything that is in there prior to transferring it, and then our DNS is no longer ours. > Are they offering SaaS, or will you be hosting the new website on > prem? That is one of my questions. Currently the site is hosted at Rackspace. > In any case, they could just ask you to do this, if you agree. Given > that "possession is nine-tenths of the law" I would not let them > anywhere near your DNS records - period. Hmmm... above it sounded like you were ok with their desire to 'redirect our DNS from our currently hosted server to theirs'. Did I misunderstand? > With regards to being blacklisted by Google, you have to be careful indeed. > Google will blacklist bad code and malicious code. At this point I'm more worried about bad links/hundreds of thousand pages suddenly giving 404 errors, etc...
