Hi Jamie, Lovely to see you. I hope that you and your family are well.

I'm so happy to be done with GoDaddy.

My new web hosts did the majority of the migration for me. I was left to sort the dynamic things such as forum and the name servers.
I had a hiccup with a forum mod in the (utf8) lang files, it was a leftover from the earlier GD collation issue
it's notably a lot more responsive now!
It seems so, I did my first tracert and I said wow out loud.
Its half the hops and <half the time. Its not possible for me to get any better than this, I connect practically straight off the core
Tracing route to kitz.co.uk [195.250.23.115]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms 1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 16 ms 14 ms 14 ms 251.core.plus.net [195.166.130.251]
3 15 ms 14 ms 14 ms 217.32.25.136
4 15 ms 16 ms 15 ms 109.159.255.28
5 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms core2-pos5-1.bletchley.ukcore.bt.net [194.74.16.217]
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 15 ms 16 ms 14 ms 185.5.172.146
9 61 ms 24 ms 26 ms 198.38.80.7
10 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms kitz.co.uk [195.250.23.115]
Trace complete.
compared to the old server
Tracing route to 11.31.205.92.host.secureserver.net [92.205.31.11]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms 250.core.plus.net [195.166.130.250]
3 16 ms 16 ms 22 ms 217.32.25.144
4 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms 109.159.255.46
5 * 17 ms 19 ms 194.74.16.241
6 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms 166-49-214-194.gia.bt.net [166.49.214.194]
7 * 17 ms 17 ms ldn-b3-link.ip.twelve99.net [213.248.71.146]
8 18 ms 17 ms 17 ms ldn-bb1-link.ip.twelve99.net [62.115.140.72]
9 * * 24 ms prs-bb1-link.ip.twelve99.net [62.115.135.25]
10 28 ms * * prs-b3-link.ip.twelve99.net [62.115.118.59]
11 30 ms 29 ms 50 ms ae5.sxb1-ibr-tarazed.bb.godaddy.com [80.239.192.122]
12 40 ms 29 ms 29 ms ae30.sxb1-cr-vega.bb.gdinf.net [87.230.112.17]
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 33 ms 31 ms 31 ms 11.31.205.92.host.secureserver.net [92.205.31.11]
Trace complete.
As for your hosts file question
Yes! Chrome seemed to ignore any hard refreshes after amending the host file.
I've since found what was causing the bug, the responsible mod had differing perms dependant on if the user was admin.
It got rather confusing when viewing as me in FF - OK. Viewing as admin in chrome - error. Viewing in Opera reg member - OK
Hopefully your new hosts are more helpful and are able to support you much better
Thank you. I hope so too.
I don't usually have that many problems - practically all that I have had over the past few years have been due to something that the web hosts initiated.
I have raised a non urgent ticket this morning which is more of a question rather than a fix something.
Ive been looking around the support section and there is quite an extensive selection of help files and tools.
The customer portal seems well laid out and easy to navigate yet far more comprehensive than the 123reg dashboard I ended up with
Plus I have WHM and cPanel
