vps goes offline then I still have an onsite dns to catch inquiries.

Is running my own DNS servers necessary, and if so, can I run one powerdns server on my offsite vps and one powerdns server in a vps on my slave? I know that sounds sloppy but I don't want to purchase

And I think Google ones and OpenDNS ones are far more reliable than those

point) and fragmentation when it comes to DNS. So I personally don't like it when one extremely huge company has everything and knows which domain has been resolved by which machine. It's just an unp

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Minimal should be standard in my opinion, why would you have Apache and Samba(!) preinstalled anyway. This should be Opt-In not Opt-Out. When I order a new VPS and see Apache preinstalled in the defau

I've been looking for a new box to put my personal stuff on. That's LAMP, one or more game servers, email, DNS, XMPP, IRC client/bots, VPN (for legal purposes), possibly a TOR relay, the whole lot. Si

It doesn't make sense to "proxy" DNS, you can NAT it, but this will be difficult to get right. And since you need at least two nameservers on separate externally visible IPs, which m

So, firstly I should build a VPN between all my VPSs, right? Then? Can I actually proxy services like also the dns (my two boxes are also the two nameservers of my domain)?

* Reverse DNS Available (On Request)

I have never had any Microsoft email accounts, nor a Gmail account. My ISP accounts are used primarily as points-of-contact for domain registrations, hosting services, VPS registrations, etc. just in

I won't recommend using mail.ru services. It's a pretty shitty company, nobody really likes it here in Russia. But I would recommend Yandex. You can use not only hosted mail, but hosted XMPP and DNS s

Would work, but you'd be probably better having your primary dns on the vps where your site isn't hosted. That way, if your main VPS goes down, you can easily change your 'IN A' record to point to you

i have two vps and one domain. I'm going to configure bind on the two vps in order to make them primary and secondary name servers (because my provider actually support dnssec as a registrar but doesn

4) Have a good failover mechanism (whether DNS, or load balancer device)

DNS tunneling! will be slow though... http://code.kryo.se/iodine/

If you are paid to watch forums and you miss thread, you will be warned, If you miss thread which is stopping whole operation (like website down, dns not working and everybody asks where are you) i wo

if my staff member miss for 5 days non working DNS servers, don't scan daily forums that we are present on, or somehow miss thread related to my company, first thing will be to fire him, possibly beat

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diverse dns servers is literally hosting101 and your outrage won't stop anyone's mild amusement at rookie mistakes from people selling "enterprise" tier services.