my webserver and mail server are currently hosted by an off-site isp. the website is very small and currently just redirects to another isp. the mail server hosts about 20 employee email accounts. since we already had roadrunner, (cable broadband), i wanted to cut out the cost of the isp hosting the servers currently. i talked to our sales rep and got my bandwidth doubled as well as a static ip for only 10.00 more a month. i have been working on getting a reliable box ready. i have suse 9.1 running apache2 and openwebmail working...as far as i can test right now....i wonder how i can test more-- such as setting up DNS server and mail server without actually switching the DNS registry yet. also i need a way to move the server to the new ip without losing any user emails. i doubt the current isp would be to cooperative considering he stands to loose money. thanks in advance for any advise,insights,education...etc. don