
Hard Refresh from your Web Browserīefore flushing the DNS you can try to hard refresh the web page you want to access.

We will explain the process in greater detail in the sections below. You can do it at your browser level, as well as at your Operating System-level using a flush command. So if you have migrated your website to a new server, and have made some changes on your website but you are not able to see those changes on your machine, one of the first diagnostic steps you need to take is to flush DNS cache. You will not even able to identify it unless you know there is a change on the website which is not displaying to you. It is completely a backend process that a normal user will never come to know. Sometimes the cache is stored for longer durations, and you won’t be able to see the updated version until the cache is cleared. In order to view the website from a new server, you need to clear the DNS cache from your computer. So, if a website owner has migrated the website to another server with a new DNS (and IP address) you might still be seeing the website from the old server due to DNS cached by your local machine.

In a quest to improve response time the web browsers store the DNS address of the websites you have already visited. The reason to illustrate how DNS works is to make it easier for you to understand how DNS Cache works.
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