Is there a way to use third party DNS as master and own DNS server as slave?

Cloudns and Linode's DNS for critical stuff. What about domain name registration redundancy?

@praveen I had mine setup like that (PowerDNS + MySQL + slaves). I'm curious as to how you find the difference between that + Rage4? I'm just thinking its easier to offload DNS nowdays and cheaper. Th

Sure they are. http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/03/cloudflare-is-down-due-to-dns-outage-taking-down-785000-websites-including-4chan-wikileaks-metallica-com/

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Which give a rats f*ck about you and your DNS being down for hours, not even bothering to reply to E-mails, or inform about the cause of the downtime. Also when a third-party provider is down, all too

Given how important DNS is, it's almost always a good idea to go with third party DNS — especially when you consider how there are very reliable free services out there.

could you verify the apache with php and the dns are working?

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there can be several reasons. I faced this situation and the cause were, dns crashed, apache crashed, port 80 or 443 used by another aplication and makes the apache failed to start. are you using cpan

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I think @Francisco has the best panel out there though with Stallion. I heard plans for DNS and load balancing to be integrated but not sure what the status with that is now.

* outsourced DNS (preferably free)

Own a third party DNS provider.

On the VPS machine, set "GatewayPorts yes" in sshd_config, then run this on your home machine. In this example, remoteserver is the DNS name of the VPS machine and port 80 is what we

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DNS, like mail, is something I prefer to offload since reliability is so essential.

I am not saying you should use dns from shared hosting but if your dns rules are simple then you should use shard hosting. using 3rd party like cloudflare is great and has an api when you need it. but

Best is Anycast DNS as your DNS records get replicated to 20+ servers around the world . Cloudflare's DNS is Anycast & its free so I would recommend that.