I'm actually surprised that we ave folks here even running dns locally. I thought the whole point of a LEB was to run as little as possible or needed.

why not use an external dns service ? You can find a few here : http://www.lowendtalk.com/wiki/free-dns-providers

Uses like exact same resource as MYSQL? any other DNS systems? Really want to get my website to my .com rofl ty

Anyway, I would advise against using Unbound as your DNS server.

Wherein other memory efficient DNS reduces the chance your RAM is full by saving some of it + not requiring a lot of memory to actually work or forking new process.

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@Asim did you get the message with the username/password for the DNS system? (as you didn't login to it yet ....)

Well I just mention that as a previous experience where they told me there's an entry related to resolving which sometimes is missed (or not configured). But if that's the case he should get 100% pack

Can't be a DNS problem, you are pinging an IP. Also, a DNS entry is cached.

Also, it could be something with DNS at provider side, so I would open a ticket with them to make sure if that, and especially if I just got the VPS and it actually didn't work correctly before.

Well, as long as the box is reachable its fine. its there to serve DNS and receive nightly backups (Image)

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* You are downloading a file from Amazon S3 over CloudFront. Geo DNS gives you an end point of CDN, where your HTTP transaction starts. However how the CDN get the original data from S3, how and where

Running cPanel DNS-only, MySQL (required by cPanel DNS_only for cPHulk module), NRPE (for nagios monitoring), EXIM (for emails)

downtime!) add a second IP and configure reverse DNS. I had my backup ready, i could be back online in a few hours, but it took me a few days.

@marrco Thanks. My personal sites are already dns'ed with a 3rd party provider thanks to the (Whatever that company was called) mess a few months ago.

+1 for internetbs, mind that the weekest part of their service is DNS. I have seen quite a few registrar (almost) go under because of ddos on their dns. Consider buying an additional service to host y

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Do you think that many people would benefit from a low-cost distributed DNS platform? I know a lot of people do like DNS platforms for hosted name servers, but I tend to see people wanting them from t

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