MessageHello >I registered the domain name dnsservice.co.uk as a white label DNS Service I planned to set up. >Having looked at the OpenSRS offering I do not feel that it is a "good" offering, primarily as a) zone >settings for TTL etc are not configurable
I can see that being a problem. >b) it is not a true white label solution and clearly identifies Tucows as the provider Is this a problem? Everyone in this business is a reseller of some sort (unless they are ATT or BT) and end users do trust Tucows more than other sources. I know that we have some customers solely because we are an openSRS reseller. >c) it is not globally >distributed as all the DNS servers are in Canada This is not necessarily a problem given the uptime these servers have. We have our own distributed DNS system with servers in the UK and US run off a database back end with the changes updating once an hour. However, if the Tucows service had existed 18 months ago I would have considered it because the cost of running DNS servers for so many zones is actually very expensive. The up side is that by not running DNS on the web servers you save a lot of resources and can put more hosting accounts per box. Regards Gordon Hudson Hostroute.com Ltd www.hostroute.net ------------------------------------------------
