I asked this same question a few weeks ago, as I am using my LEB VPS in a critical production environment. I am running my own asterisk pbx box which hosts 2 separate extensions. If my server goes dow

Still this does however pose the problem of browser compatibilities. I wish they made it proper part of the DNS protocol or is it already, otherwise why would multiple a records be allowed in the firs

by N mirrors do you mean multiple vps ? & how can we implement in the dns > by multiple A records ? In case of multiple A records does it not follow the first one it finds ?

Setup N mirrors and configure your DNS records to point to all of them?

However, this insecure feeling of abruptly loosing my vps (resulting in all the websites going offline) has always been nagging me ever since. Yes I do maintain backups but if the host dies then a new

Definitly a +1 for RamNode, got currently 2 servers (a 128mb and a 256mb) and another one using for backup DNS. Since the 0day rock solid. (Image)

If you're running a particular service on a vps, say a webserver or DNS, you'll probably want a service specific check as well.

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I mean, do you do BGP sessions and announce a /24 subnet for your VPS customers in order to use Anycast DNS

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Free basic cPanel account for DNS management etc

Local caching dns(dnsmasq), network file server, backup to s3, and I also pull down backups from my servers to pi

Cloudflare.com or dns.he.net

@darkconz Use DNS AXFR, not rsync.

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Thanks for the help guys, I used the intodns.com website and I found out what the problem was. Silly me, when I rsync, I rsync'ed the config file too so that was preventing my secondary DNS server's N

This sounds a bit strange, since the whole DNS was designed for redundandency from beginning, so if you have done everything correctly, it will definitely work (currently having 20+ Nameservers and it

Hi,

Oh yes, DNS amplification is a very annoying problem for todays hosting providers - TCP attacks nearly ceased to exist or are easily done by local null (largest i've seen was around 6G TCP) but DNS re

I was considering doing a global CDN, DNS type thing, As there are so many places that do free ports etc for Pies, But kinda gave up as I don't have the time.