Thanks, I am running NSD and haven't had any issues. Hostigation was down the other day, luckily my secondary DNS was with another provider.

Again, most basic example, you can run DNS using less than 20MB ram, 50MB hdd and some small amount of bandwidth using NSD3 or something similar.

The user isn't "querying" against your nameservers, the root dns are.

you can have redundant mail servers, as long as the DNS works and you have in different networks/providers, should be fine.

If you have a KVM, put an e-smith server on it. Comes with out of the box dns, horde, qmail, backup...

You get a VPS, use your registrars free DNS, install zPanel for managing stuff, done (Image)

Would it be possible to move away from google apps and start up our own mail server? I've never managed to get a successful one up yet. I'm never sure about what DNS records I need to add...pointing t

In regards to being geo redundant. Without any cast, what would the point of having your dns servers in different regions matter? I have one dns with hostigation in LAX and one with ramnode in ATL. If

if they're in different datacenters. I had a DNS server with Securedragon that went out last week during that outage, but I also had 3 other ones online still so all was well.

I have 4 of them, spread all over the globe. A simple 128Mb VPS will do for a DNS install.

Create a geo-dns cluster?

Thinking about hosting my own DNS cluster, just because well, I'm bored.

Our New Jersey servers run Intel E3 processors and RAID 1 storage with a 100mbit shared connection. We’ve also added ability to manage reverse DNS inside SolusVM at our New Jersey location. IPv6 is al

O32 <- Great for VPNs, IRC, DNS, monitoring, or a few websites!

Gosh darn it. My nagios node is in LAX. I'll have to set up a redundant Nagios config. Good thing my secondary DNS is with another provider.

+1 for them. Got LA location for my DNS system, great deal for 35/year.

For dns, I have decided to use distributed DNS service provided along with my domain .. quite reliable using from many years. So, issue remain for backup... (Image)

2x DigitalOcean $5 VPS (one in each location) for cPanel DNS Cluster.

Geolocation based DNS. Easiest and cheapest implementation to outsource that functionality would be Rage4. There are roll your own solutions that work and other high cost premium providers.

@pubcrawler how do you decide which users goes to which node? Do you have some DNS smartness for this?