Web hosting announced downtime and how it affects FORWARD domain names?

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Published on 2012-04-19T12:29:21Z Indexed on 2012/09/05 21:50 UTC
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Our web hosting provider that holds our FORWARD domain names announced that at some point in the next couple weeks they will be migrating servers and that this will cause a 5-10 minute downtime at some point in that week during what happens to be our core business hours. They cite for technical reasons it is impossible to give an exact date or time when this downtime will occur.

My questions are:

  1. If my domains are set to FORWARD to a static IP on servers not hosted by the web hosting provider in question then will this affect the DNS servers correctly routing to my website?

  2. Are their legitimate technical reasons for such a wide window of time, or could this just be a blanket statement to cover laziness in not being more organized with their server migrations?

  3. Are such downtimes normal for web hosting providers, or should I start to consider other providers?

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