changed hosting...

I've gone with an overseas company that is so much cheaper and offers more...

Anyway, mx records are sorted, changed name servers....
mail works (thank christ)...

but when I go to my url I still get the site hosted by my old provider...

Thought it might be cached but I refreshed and I can also access the entire site - parts I've never visited on this OS. I changed nameservers about 12 hours ago... what am I missing here?

patience

okay yeah I suppose. Not entirely sure how it works, but I suppose ISP's that have served up the page recently (like mine) will have the DNS records cached...

Yup, DNS changes can take 24 hours or more to propagate. The ideal way is several days before you want to make the change, you set TTL to a low number, which tells servers to check more frequently. Then when you do make the change, it will propagate much faster. But for a variety of reasons, that doesn't always work as well as you'd like it to, so roughly 24 hours it is.

okay cool. No urgency, the site has been stagnant for a loooooong time. Glad it's changed now to a landing page that just says stuff is being done blah blah instead of the awful flash mess that was there. I sometimes wondered if I was giving my email address to potential clients/employers who were then checking the url and seeing that thinking it was a prime example of my work. No, it wasn't, it was just there. Going to use "secret" subdomains to run some tests :>
and just host misc crap.