Using Legacy Services and Hosting Simultaneously

At Nixzoehost, we understand that transitioning from an older platform to a modern hosting environment is a process that shouldn't happen under pressure. Many of our long-term clients choose to keep their Legacy Site Builder active while simultaneously utilizing our Shared, Cloud, or WordPress Hosting for newer projects.

This guide explains how to manage both environments under a single domain or account without technical conflicts.

1. The "Dual-Environment" Strategy

The most common reason to run both services simultaneously is to build a new, high-performance website in the background while your original legacy site stays live for your customers.

• The Legacy Site: Stays at your main domain (e.g., www.yourdomain.com).

• The New Hosting: Lives on a subdomain (e.g., new.yourdomain.com or dev.yourdomain.com).

Once the new site is perfect, you can "flip the switch" by updating your DNS records to point the main domain to the new hosting server and then decommissioning the legacy service.

2. Managing DNS for Both Services

Since Legacy Builder sites and modern Hosting accounts live on different server clusters, your DNS (Domain Name System) acts as the traffic controller.

• Legacy Records: Usually require a specific A Record pointing to our legacy IP addresses (e.g., 192.x.x.x).

• Modern Hosting Records: Use our High-Speed Nameservers (e.g., ns1.nixzoehost.com) and point to a different IP.

Important: If you move your domain's Nameservers to a new hosting account, your Legacy Site will go offline unless you manually copy the old A Records into your new Zone Editor. Our support team can assist you with this "split-DNS" configuration to ensure both sites remain reachable.

3. Email Management

One major advantage of having a modern Hosting plan alongside a Legacy Builder is Advanced Email.

While our legacy products had basic email capabilities, our modern hosting plans include Professional Email with higher storage, better spam protection (Jellyfish), and full mobile sync. You can migrate your email service to your new hosting plan while keeping your website on the Legacy Builder, giving you the best of both worlds during your transition.

4. Moving Content Between Platforms

Because the Legacy Builder uses a proprietary format, you cannot simply "copy and paste" the entire site into WordPress or the AI Builder. However, running them simultaneously allows for a smooth manual migration:

1. Keep the Legacy Builder open in one tab to reference your text and images.

2. Open your New Hosting Dashboard in another tab to build the equivalent pages.

3. The Benefit: This allows you to redesign your site using 2026 web standards (faster speeds and better SEO) while ensuring no information is lost from the original version.

Simultaneous Use Checklist