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hmm, that brings up a thought- since it's changing servers, will it still have the same IP or will the IP be changed? Because, if that changes, we have to wait for the new DNS information to propogate through the DNS servers, and that can take up to 12 hours.
Now I'll try to translate that into English.
Computers speak to each other in numbers, not words. Every site or domain on the internet, and every computer on a network, has a numerical name, called an IP address. It looks something like this: 207.58.128.120 (that seems to be the BYC IP, but I can't get it to load right now).
There are a series of key servers on the internet called DNS servers, they translate names (like "backyardchickens.com") into IP addresses. If a domain switches to a new or different IP, that information has to get passed around to the databases on all the DNS servers in the world, and that process can take a while- they don't refresh their information immediately.