Thank you for your replies. We will be checking out the DNS hosting companies recommended here along with our registrar's DNS.
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Mike Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > > I do actually have a question here. Was there anything I could have done > to > > get us up and running? > > At that stage in the game? Unlikely. > > But now that you've learned the lesson, you can take steps to > prevent a re-occurrence. DNS is designed with distributed redundancy > in mind. > > Getting a dedicated DNS hosting company, as others have suggested, > is a good idea. That way your names are not tied to your feed, your > web server, or anything else. It makes switching all those much > easier, and a dedicated host is less likely to screw up like this. > Many registrars include basic DNS hosting with your registration. > > Run a nameserver of your own. Or more than one, if you have > multiple sites/feeds. You can slave it to the hosting company's > nameservers, or some DNS hosts offer "slave service" packages. List > your nameserver(s) along with the hosting company's servers in the > registration delegation. Now you've got multiple companies, sites, > servers, and likely even DNS implementations serving your records. > > For example, at our local Linux User Group, our co-lo'ed server is > the master nameserver, but we also get slave service from Dyn Inc > (http://www.dyn.com/). So our registered nameservers look like: > > our-server.example.org. > ns4.mydyndns.org. > ns5.mydyndns.org. > ns2.mydyndns.org. > ns3.mydyndns.org. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > -- Thank you, Mike Sullivan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
