I'm tasked with moving a Drupal 6 site from a shared hosting account to a new virtual server.
Once I transfer the files to the new server, can I have the new server access the same database on the old shared server? So both sites (shared account and virtual server) would access the same db until DNS finishes propagation? Then I could put the new site into maintenance mode, and move the db to the new server.
I'm hoping that this will work so the old db doesn't get changed while DNS propagates...