I remember when Host1Free Offered 3 month trial VPS's and you had to pay $1 to activate it. Just signed up for this offer, might use it for DNS or backups.

Means the name servers for the website are on completely different servers and data centres (e.g. http://who.is/dns/landofdaniel.com/).

@Daniel what do you mean redundant dns? Redundant dns on the providers site? There is a website around here somewhere that tells you if someone is on shared hosting, anyone care to share?

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I've got a free VPS from Amanah and it works pretty well for DNS stuff with similar stats. No reason not to give this a try, can always use another DNS box.

but in the real world i use Debian for my primary website + secondary DNS, and CentOS for cPanel + VPS management (Solus/Virtualizor)

We offer quite a bit that we don't advertise on buyvm.net. Including the BuyVM+ SQL and BuyVM+ DNS/backup services. We functioned just fine for three years without any website at all... our reputati

Yes, is the DNS idea, but isn't the pretty way.

Its back now, must of been DNS caching issue

Its back now, must of been DNS caching issue

Weird, working fine for me and I'm on Google DNS. Same from the server I tried.

I use google's DNS (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4). Some reason it didn't work. Same w/ my linode. (Image)

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Ah ok, or just use a free DNS service.

Error 105 (net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED): Unable to resolve the server's DNS address.

So I got some more information and yea, what I want is not really possible with a heartbeat. Looks like I will be using Pingdom's API and a DNS Cluster around the US on my 128's at various places. Thi

I suppose for a VPS hosting company, you don't really know what sites they're hosting, other than perhaps deducing from reverse DNS.

Unfortunately that's pretty true..When I checked the wiki on alternative DNS root a lot of the website don't even work any more!!

No lol, alternative DNS zones have existed since many years and there is simply no reason why mainstream people should use them (or even know how to change their DNS server). This system can never bec

to switch it so that your server manages the DNS.. and if your with OpenNic DNS you can't even set up "A" records to point to the server..