Orange to Orange website migrations

TL;DR If you’re migrating between hosting services that both use Cloudflare then don’t be surprised when you see the old site after cutting over DNS to the new provider. Your request is going into the new IP, but being served from the old cache. The old provider needs to be de-provisioned so that Cloudflare can pick up the new content. Background My Atsign colleagues have spent the last few months working on a new atsign.com website, and yesterday was go live day. I was drafted in to take care of the DNS cutover. We’d previously used Kinsta for hosting, but the new site has been built on Webflow. I knew that Kinsta used Cloudflare as its CDN. Webflow was new to me, and I wasn’t aware of its operational details. Prepping the cutover I was given 4 DNS records to implement: An apex A record for atsign.com pointing to 198.202.211.1 A CNAME for http://www.atsign.com pointing to cdn.webflow.com A verification TXT record for atsign.com A verification TXT record for http://www.atsign.com I…