WAY OT: For the DNS GurusSharyn: The cheapest and easiest way to go is to get any old PC with, I would say 1 Ghz or above and 512MB RAM or more and set up your own Web Server, whether it be Linux/Apache or Windows 2K/IIS.
The latter is easier to set up and manage, the former is much better on performance. If it's just a couple of sites and you are familiar with Windows, use IIS. The advantage of doing it yourself really comes if you want to do dynamic web pages with a database behind it, or if you want to use ColdFusion or other application servers as it can be difficult getting ISPs to proivide support. The other advantage of doing it yourself will be you gain a much better understanding of how it all works. You can run it all off a cable modem - just put a router behind it and map the services/ports to the server that will respond - ie map the DNS to the DNS server and the HTTP to the web server. You can also run an email server (IMail), all very easily over a single line with a single, fixed external IP address. For example I run some 30 domains on a single old web server, each with it's own email accounts, do email for three counties (approx 2000 accounts), all my own DNS and develop code on a single cable modem with an old Netgear 318 FVS router to handle and redirect the incoming calls. Total cost for all hardware, including the router, mail server, DNS server, web server and SQL server, less than $4K. The only problem is I have no one to blame when, and it happens once a year, something goes wrong, which is usally me screwing up the DNS because I wasn't thinking. Cheers Ted Daniels ----- Original Message ----- From: Sharyn Schmidt To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 11:33 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] WAY OT: For the DNS Gurus We are using a hosting company. Our developer is putting together a website that will be accessed by handheld devices. We wanted to call the website http://emergency.floridadistillers.com to resolve to 64.79.167.6, which is the address of the box that the webhosting company gave us. The hosting company gave us one of their URL's to use: http:\\floridadist.web117.discountasp.net The developer informs me that the only way this website is going to work is if the URL that was provided by the hosting company is used, however, my boss wants to use the emergency.floridadisillers.com URL. I run my own primary nameserver here for floridadistillers.com. Originally, my thought was to just create an A record for emergency and point it to 64.79.167.6. Now I am being told that somehow I have to point emergency to floridadist.web117.discountasp.net. Is there a way to do this in my DNS? I thought maybe the "alias" record would work for this (I'm using MS DNS on a win2k server machine) but it's not resolving. Suggestions? Thanks, Sharyn
