Siteground changed my IP -- did I update it right?

Website, Application, Performance DNS & Network
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Non-techie here.

Siteground recently did a site relocation, so the IP address for my website changed. As a result, I needed to update the IP on Cloudflare.

My approach was to go to the DNS record list, and manually update the IP in any A-records that looked like they had an IP address in them. (I.e. those A records all had 35.200.25.xxx, and I changed them all to 35.280.35.xxx – just an example).

Did I do it right? Will that cause other unforeseen consequences?

Thanks!

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Welcome to the Cloudflare Community. :logodrop:

As long as all services at the old IP have moved to the new IP, that should take care of it.

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Ok thanks. And in that scenario, the approach of changing each A-record that had the old IP in it was correct?

This is all Greek to me, so I’m just trying to make sure I didn’t mess anything up (and that I covered my bases).

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Think of DNS like your contacts in your mobile phone. Let’s assume you have 3 contacts that live at the same residence. You found out they all moved to a new house. You can replace the old address in each contact record with the new one.

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Ok cool. :slight_smile: It sounds like that was the right move.

There are just so many different DNS records, different types etc, that I wanted to make sure I was changing the right ones and not the wrong ones.

Thanks for your help!

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