: How long do I need my old hosting account after I have moved to another host as well as address? I had my old website at the********.in and shifted to a .org domain. I also switched the

@Kevin317

The goal would be to keep the redirects up as long as possible, ideally forever. Why? Users will have bookmarks with the old URLs and other websites will have links to the old domain. These may never go away and you would like to keep them working if at all possible. That's just good usability (i.e. a good user experience).

You could easily accomplish this by pointing your .in domain to your new website and putting your 301 redirects there as well. That will keep the old URLs alive so anyone who finds and uses one will be able to find the content.

If that is not possible, or your only concern is search engines finding your new content, you can terminate the old hosting and redirects when you're confident the search engines have adequately updated their indexes to reflect your new URLs. You "practically" don't see any old URLs in their index which means you do still see a few. Is is acceptable that those pages may be starting from scratch in the search engines? If so, terminate your old hosting. If not, you need to keep waiting for the search engines to get caught up to your redirects before you pull the plug. You need to decide on how important those pages are to your search engine strategy.

Basically, it's your call.

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