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Got a bit of a tricky one here. I'm gonna use example to domain names to make this simple.

So I have a server: whm.example.com. The main domain example.com was bought using Fasthosts, not bought with the web hosting company.

Configured in the WHM/cPanel, look to be custom nameservers, ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com. The domain name in Fasthosts of course points to ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com.

On my web server (whm.example.com) they are multiple websites. I want to migrate example.com to a new web server, which would mean updating the nameservers for that domain.

Because the domain, web server and the nameservers take the same name, would pointing example.com to new nameservers (ns1.website1.com & ns2.website1.com) cause all websites that run on the whm.example.com server to go down?

Let's say I have a website called mywebsite.example on the whm.example.com server. I assume changing the nameserves on this particular domain wouldn't be an issue, as it isn't directly linked to the server name.

If someone could give me a real idiots guide on the solution to this, that would be fantastic. I'm not web server tech savvy, it is far from my domain.

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If you simply want to change the host for your main domain example.com while remaining rest of the subdomains, you'd just need to update your A record to your new web host. Moving nameservers usually wouldn't have downtime if both of them have the same records already configured.