Do you have different DNS setup on the VPS as opposed to dedicated?

Use the name DNS on both servers, Google DNS would be good.

@NeoXiD,

OP, I have a core i7 960 machine sitting at my house that is my file server, dhcp, dns, and plex and it runs plex just fine. I have a decent upload at home so streaming to my laptop and or phone over

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at, their anycast network will ensure that the DNS propagation would be FAST!

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We did it 10-15 years ago, when there was no VPS, with some sort of dynamic dns.

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If you are gonna manually reissue the license to the second IP and wait for the dns update, why can't you just rsync (+ cron at 5/10 mins) all the files to the second server and serve from there when

If you have to go through the manual process of reissuing the license then the second server isn't going to be live failover. You would still need to update the DNS to point to the correct IP and then

What timing! I just checked my e-mail and there's a message apologizing for the delay and explaining that they had trouble recovering the DNS server which they had inherited and that they had just now

The provider did not cite that. They said they were configuring the DNS server. I have no reason to believe they are "less-clueful". I was just wondering what the norm was, particula

Last year I got a VPS and after a while I noticed rDNS was no longer offered in the control panel. A few months back they changed ownership so perhaps that has something to do with it. Ten days ago

If you are using cPanel I'm told their setup works much more reliably now (years ago when I last used the DNSOnly distribution I had problems (IIRC it has only recently been introduced) and ended up r

complementary minimal server monitoring and DNS hosting, security groups, detachable volumes, and more. We have locations in Toronto and Montreal, providing reliable virtual private server hosting us

-Free Instant Reverse DNS

* Run https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/ALD/Installation+Guide+-+cPanel+DNSONLY+Installation

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You can also use VestaCP dns cluster.