Migrating from Siteground - Wordpress to Jekyll - Netlify

[Valeria]

Hi, I have a website currently hosted in Siteground and using Wordpress as the building platform. The domain and corporate mail is also registered under Siteground.

I would like to make the switch to Jekyll and Netlify, but keeping the Siteground domain and email. That’s why I built this one on Jekyll https://metaustralia.netlify.app.

What I did first was to change the Siteground domain servers to the ones provided by Netlify when I added the custom domain. There wasn’t any error when I did that, and it seemed that Netlify accepted the domain.

However, after an hour when I clicked in the custom domain, the old website (in Wordpress) still appearing online.

Does anyone know what should I do to make my new site appear under the Siteground domain, but hosted in Netlify?

Thanks so much!

[coelmay]

Hey @Valeria

When I visit metaustralia.com.au the site is served by Netlify.

Note: DNS propagation isn’t instantaneous, taking anything up to a couple of days though usually much quicker.

Did you also migrate the email records to Netlify DNS as well (I don’t see any)?

[Support Guide] How do I migrate a domain to Netlify DNS with zero downtime?

Last reviewed by Netlify Support - August, 2023 IMPORTANT UPDATE While many details in this support guide remain valuable information, the best guide for a zero downtime DNS migration can be found here: However, there is still great information below and our support team will continue to link people to sub-sections of this support guide when they are relevant to someone’s particular situation or question. What is this topic about? This topic covers copying your existing DNS records from you…

[Support Guide] How can I receive emails on my domain?

Last reviewed by Netlify Support: March 2022 That’s a really common question! Netlify does not provide email service. But no worries! You can choose a service yourself, and then set up the DNS records required by that email provider at Netlify. Note that these instructions are primarily for folks who are using Netlify’s DNS Hosting. Any mail provider should work with our DNS hosting, from major ones like GSuite and Outlook to your own mail server. Some specific services customers have report…

[Valeria]

Thanks @coelmay for your quick answer and advice!

The problem is that the old website is still appearing (see picture) and not the one I recently built that is shown here
https://metaustralia.netlify.app

Old website - Wordpress

Will it just take time or am I missing something?

Thanks in advance,
Val

[coelmay]

This is what I see

metaustralia.netlify.app

metaustralia.com.au

It is possible the old version is cached locally.