Well, the NS records are right, for sure (and the order of them is irrelevant too, as far as I know). Maybe this is just a question of a little time for propagation. Hmmn. Well, I'm sure there are other ways to do this but maybe the easiest ..

Setup a dummy DNS zone, as explained in Add a Domain Zone to Your VPS. Call the domain anything-you-like.com and have Linode's DNS manager set the records for you, as prompted in the options. Then copy the variables generated in the editable summary page to your real zone, and wait for propagation (which is really fast with Linode, their db updates every quarter-hour).

Then again, the way to find your IP, otherwise, is either by checking on the DNS Manager and looking at the page where you edited your reverse DNS setting (you did that in the Postfix setup bit) .. or just by typing ifconfig in the terminal (not ipconfig, that's Windoze.)

Cloned it huh .. that sounds like another tute-to-go ..

I've been successful in serving a clone of my site on my Linode VPS. The IP I have is 97.107.XX.XXX. I can't change the nameservers for the main site I want to move myself. I have to instruct the domain registerer. I asked that they 'change the nameservers to ns1.linode.com, ns2. . . This they seem to have done but the Domain DNS details page now displays:

MX Records
0 mydomain.com 74.54.XXX.XXX

Nameservers
ns2.linode.com 65.19.178.10
ns3.linode.com 75.127.96.10
ns4.linode.com 207.192.70.10
ns1.linode.com 69.93.127.10

WWW verwijzingen
mydomain.com 74.54.XXX.XXX
http://www.mydomain.com mydomain.com

The 74.54.XXX.XXX IP is that of the server I am moving the site from.

I'm pretty sure these settings won't work.

I reckon I need to tell them to change the old IPs to my new one. Would that be all? Are those IPs for the Linode nameservers correct?

Cheers.

However, I am seeing the nginx welcome page. I reckon I should be seeing my uploaded files so I guess something is not right somewhere but where?

The other thing I wanna ask about is 'create & link any databases and import your data within'. This I know how to do with phpMyAdmin. Have you done a guide to do this with CLI? Do you suggest installing phpMyAdmin on my VPS? Is there a guide for that?

$cat /etc/hosts
##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost