nop Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 I'm curious if many use the same hosting server as the dns server? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bebop1065 Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 I have that setup for a few accounts. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinspace Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 If you have more than one shared server than a cluster enviornment for all your shared customers works well (at least with cpanel). If you only have the one server, redundant DNS is moot unless using other services not hosted on that server (i.e., backup mail). Third party DNS is a great investment and gives you some neat features in some cases (IP fail over to mention one). We moved to dnsmadeeasy.com about a year ago and never looked back. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nop Posted September 20, 2007 Author Share Posted September 20, 2007 I use dnsmadeeasy too and like them. However I am using cPanel for the first time and want to automate things. Are using dnsmadeeasy for primary and secondary or just secondary? If for both are you updating DNS? If you have more than one shared server than a cluster enviornment for all your shared customers works well (at least with cpanel). If you only have the one server, redundant DNS is moot unless using other services not hosted on that server (i.e., backup mail). Third party DNS is a great investment and gives you some neat features in some cases (IP fail over to mention one). We moved to dnsmadeeasy.com about a year ago and never looked back. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinspace Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 We use DME as primary for our company domains and server. For our shared servers, we use DME for the NS A Records (since they're based on our company domain) and run local DNS in a cluster between each server. To further increase redundancy (and avoid a DNS cluster all together), you could run DME as backup to your shared server(s) local DNS. You'll just need to add the DME backup NS host names to the shared server(s) cpanel setup and add each DME backup host IP to DNS ACLs (assuming you use ACLs). We have one domain using DME as backup at it works great (just takes a few minutes for the initial record sync). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kship Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Running DNS servers on the same box as web would be a bad idea since there would be no redundancy. We run each of our DNS servers in different colocation facilities(data centers). If one goes down the other is still up etc...you are not dependant on one connection. We have found this to be the most stable for our cleints. Ken 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinspace Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 I'm pretty sure that's what we've been talking about with third party DNS . Anyway, there's no beating a DNS provider with 5 independent name servers and 1800 TTL rates. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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