Thanks for all of the replies. I guess I'm going to by the BIND/DNS book.
I think the next step for me is setting up our server's DNS.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Morse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 7:52 AM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: W2K Web Server
>
>
> 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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