Testing Your Site Before Updating the DNS… HOW TO: Temporary URLS and Updating your Hosts File

Last Updated on Thursday, 21 February 2013 03:58 Written by Karen S Thursday, 21 February 2013 10:53

We all know the importance of testing your site after a migration to your hosting account.  More often than not we wish to do this prior to updating the domain’s DNS nameservers to Arvixe.   We have a few options that allow us to do this – via the control panel, as well as by modifying your local PC’s hosts file.

Both cPanel and Website Panel provide temporary URLs via the hostname.