- the VM is unmanaged, the customer is responsible for all aspects of managing their VM server, including patching, installing and maintaining applications, firewalling and DNS.

..just set up a little ispconfig cluster... an Ubuntu 12.04 master running all services (using approx ~350M with no real service load), and two Debian Squeeze BIND DNS slaves running on 256 LEB's (eac

Or you just cluster your website and MySQL over several servers and use Google Apps for mail and Cloudflare or something for pure DNS? (Image)

no torrent/irc access , no VPN, no VNC access, no reverse dns.

- Custom Reverse DNS (RDNS) records via VPS control panel

Ok, well i've decided it's best to part company with them over a period of time. Just moving two DNS VPSes away from them now (the two that are down). That leaves 5 there.

Hi everyone, anyone here have a VPS on NY14 that's still up? I've got two DNS servers that have been down for over a day and they've not responded to tickets.

So...what could cause this? When I lookup the DNS it returns the same IP in all places I've tried.

Bundling other services is a good idea. Like integration of Rage4 DNS for your customers or other value added services. Not purely for upselling like domain registrars, but for partnerships, brand g

I have a box with them, only a DNS server but it perfoms well and does it's job, I am happy with that but I can also understand and appreciate why this post has grown so big (Image)

Like the offloaded SQL, DNS clustering, backups, etc.

light. We had a VPS at ChicagoVPS for one of our DNS locations, and it went down. No biggie, in a matter of minutes we cloned it somewhere else. It happens, and I am not upset with them for that. In

Why don't you write a simple script to do everything (I.e. server setup, domain/DNS , install SSL). A simple kick starter script with variable that you provide during initial execution should do the t

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Thanks for the info. I am currently in the process of moving POP mail to Office 365 because of frequent downtimes. After the move, I also want to switch the DNS, else it makes very little sense to mov

For what it's worth, if you use a CloudFlare Hosting Partner (for transparency, we are one) your dns records do not need to live on CF's dns servers, but instead on the dns servers of the hosting part

Well Cloudflare claims to do lots of things. DNS is one thing I wouldn't be placing in their hands (too many eggs in one basket when failure does happen).

What other DNS service would you recommand? Namecheap?

Something else today on the DNS layer happened. Sent off to our outsourced provider to see if they were aware of anything.

I had a cpanel dns server get borked this morning too (Image)