On 14 Mar 2001, at 22:03, Erik Voldengen wrote:
> 5) Bind as many IP addresses to the NIC as you think you'll need.
> Doing it up front saves you from having to reboot the server
> down the road. You can also set up multiple sites in IIS to
> use a single IP address (there's a viewlet on that coming up @ SA.com)
W2K doesn't have to be rebooted to have new IP addresses come
online. REALLY NICE.
> 6) Set up your DNS. W2K has a DNS server built in. Hopefully
> someone knows a little about DNS in house. If not, O'Reily
> makes a great book on BIND/DNS. Microsoft also has a very
> in depth white paper on DNS using it's product. I myself just
> installed BIND on NT, but I don't think anyone else would or
> even should do that.
easydns.com will handle your DNS for $25 a domain for a year, it
will help you not screw up AND they have a spread out system of
servers for redunancy.
> And one more note - hosting stuff in house is a pain in the ass.
> All of a sudden, someone needs to be able to come into the office
> to reboot the server, etc. And right when you have a deadline to
> hit, the server takes a big crap and you end up having to work on
> it for several agonizing hours. And if I had a nickle for every
> time a client called and said the statistics program was "frozen,"
> I would have about 4 dollars and 75 cents. Not that I'm bitter
> or anything... Just be aware it's not going to be a zero maintanance
> task you are taking on here.
Agreed! I'm glad I'm moving away from hosting in-house.
Stephen Morse
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