Moving domain to dedicated IP

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For the past several months I have had a website hosted on my virtual dedicated server (set up through Plesk 7.5).

http://www.alternative-energy-news.info
IP: 68.178.151.111

I purchased a new shared hosting account with Go Daddy, and copied all my files to the new IP 208.109.13.248 (4 days ago). This is where the site should be:

http://www.alternative-energy-news.info
IP: 208.109.13.248

This seems to be working fine for everyone but me. On my home computer when I visit the domain I still see the files that are on the old IP 68.178.151.111

I have cleaned the cookies and cache from both browsers (IE and Firefox), disabled and re-enabled my firewall, cleaned the registry, rebooted, etc. to try and get my computer to recognize the site at the new dedicated IP. If I disable the domain in the 68.178.151.111 account I get the default Plesk page when I visit the domain.

I created a test page on the new IP which shows up if I use

http://208.109.13.248/hello.php

I get a "Not Found" page at

http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/hello.php

(it probably works for you). Has anyone heard of this problem before? It is getting really frustrating as I need to be able to view and test my site.

Thank you for your time!

 

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Fixed!

Apparently Windows uses a "dns cache" which needs to be cleared before my computer will recognize the new IP address for my site (how silly). I had to use the command prompt and enter:

ipconfig /displaydns - to show the dns cache
ipconfig /flushdns - to clear the cache

Also added the correct IP address and domain name in the "hosts file"

\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (edit with notepad)

Now it works fine in both my browsers - Yay!