Same Domain Use 2 Different 3rd Party Managed DNS Services
May 21, 2008
Anybody using 2 different 3rd party Managed DNS services like dnsmadeeasy.com and ultradns.com on same domain name ?
Reason for doing it is because we are having resolving issues also the domain name is ".in" not ".com/net/org".
Now we have added nameservers of both the providers in the domain registrar control panel. Total it has 8 name servers now.
I copy pasted exactly same A records & Mx record and same ttl.
Q1) The NS records on both the dns services are Different. Should i add the 1st dns providers 4 nameservers in the 2nd dns providers panel and viceversa?
Q2) will this setup work anybody done it before .. does create problems?
I have security concerns with my current hosting of eCommerce sites. The hosts responses to my specific concerns are vague and unsatisfactory. Even when anomalies are pointed out, ( i.e A traffic domain was suddenly pointing to an IP on a server in another country) they return answers like, "Yes, there was a problem, but its all fine now."
I have considered moving to a new host, however, for price reasons, I like my current host.
This has caused me to consider having the security of my server checked and perhaps managed by a third party.
I have no experience with choosing such a service, and research so far has raised more concerns than answers as to how and what may happen by requesting the use of such a service, the reputability of said service providers, and the costs of implementing the recommendations etc.
My main concern is to do with Mysql database manipulation and DNS manipulation within the network. However, a general server vulnerability assessment would be assumed beneficial.
I'm finally ready to move from a shared environment to a dedicated server. I don't know anything about server set up and management. Therefore I'm looking for a managed solution.
Reading through this great forum I found out that I can either go with a fully managed solution by the hosting company or go with an self-managed host and hire a third party administrator.
This will be my first dedicated server project. I would like to keep monthly cost below $400. Not necessarily looking for the cheapest deal out there, but rather for good service and stable performance.
I have heard good things about the Planet and liquidweb here on this forum. If I can find a reliable 3rd party management company I might be able to look into softlayer and/limestone.
I'm trying to decide whether I should go with inhouse management or 3rd party management.
The term Managed Services concerns me with the way it is tossed around in the industry and I am curious to see what other hosts refer to as managed services, how they implement them and also what the consumer expects to receive on a managed server.
In going over one websites description earlier today they had more than five pages devoted to managed services and in my opinion said nothing. In fact at one point they mentioned their backup power, which while I will agree with that it is very important, that is infrastructure and IMHO has nothing to do with backup services.
Anyway I am interested in your view and definition of what you expect to receive on a managed server.
I was thinking of using Gigenet as my web host but I am unsure as to how good their "Managed Services" are. I need something fully managed and 99.9 % to 100% uptime is a must. Does anybody know if Gigenet immediately takes care of a problem (if the problem arises) as opposed to first opening/submitting a ticket then resolving the issue?
i currnetly use no-ip to host my website from my home server, with windows server 2003. I was wondering if I could use two hosts at once. If so, can you recommend some free ones, subdomains are ok.
So i am planning to move my clients from one server to another and the problem is i want to minimize downtime or have absolutely no downtime. On top of all of this, i plan on moving the server again as i get more money to do it.
Anyways, here is the current situation....
mydomain.com has the following nameservers
ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com
My clients are also using ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com
I wanted to move my DNS to a managed DNS solution somewhere else and then do the change of servers. Would this be the right way to go about things? Or am i forgetting something? Would it be frowned upon the the hosting industry to have my DNS hosted somewhere else?
And last, if i do what im trying to do, how do i do it? lol.
I need to keep ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com still active.
i m going to buy country top level domain. in our country, its still a manual job. thats not a big problem. but problem is that, i can't change the name servers of the domain in future from web. I have to again submit paper based request to the authority.
but I want to use a better service. so, is there any good managed dns provider which i can use to update the DNS from web. I will submit their dns to the authority. then i can point my domain to anywhere i like using their managed dns service.
I was reading Ross's article on DNS Hosting and was curious to see feedback from others who utilize these services.
We're an UltraDNS customer - Ross refers to them as the ferrari of DNS hosting, which I agree. We've been with them a few years now and I'll admit that we pay a very pretty penny for them to manage our DNS for a few of our larger sites. On the flip side, we've never once had a DNS issue and their support, when we've needed to engage them, has been outstanding.
Are most folks just using their control panel's DNS interface, or is there are larger contigent who are outsourcing their DNS management?
When a colo vendor can consider themselves as a managed colocation provider? What make them different than *normal* colo service?
If you need a managed colo, why not go with managed server? With managed server, your vendor will take care about the server health, including software and hardware too
(I am mentioning to fully managed server vendors like Rackspace, don't tell me cheap managed servers)
I guess they have a system in place so that they will automatically be directed calls if the "rep" is not busy and my call got directed to a desk with no operator and I heard them having a party in the background. How completely professional!
Also, their telephone system is completely broken and you'll always get a pissed off sales rep in the middle of the day because they will automatically be directed calls because their hold system is broken.
Is there any third party free VPS internet connection monitoring service that notifies when there is no internet connection?... I know there are lots of website uptime montioring services.... but I use VPS for using windows applications and no web page and I need to know if there is an internet connection failure...... Is there any third party service that checks this and it will not be hosted by me but the service ?.... I need to know when there is a fialure in the internet connection... It can ping or use other ways...
Another thing I am looking for is a software that notifies me by email when the windows VPS is restarted without my attendance....
I use a third-party DNS host for a domain hosted on a shared server with cpanel. The A record point to that server so that the website on it is shown, and for e-mail, it uses a different server.
How does the domain have to configured on the cpanel server, the one that hosts the website, so that e-mail originating from within it go to the external mail server?
And a related question - after the necessary changes are done, can the cpanel server still send e-mail with that domain name (say, if a script attempts to send an a message)?
Basically I want e-mails to myself going to a third party exchange mailbox provider and the other mailboxes for my domain going into their own mailboxes on my webhost server.
I have servers with softlayer current paying $2000 a month for 3 dedicated servers. THey are set up and work perfectly.
Issue is i was not aware that softlayer doesnt do "managed" support, would like to know if anyone has a good third party company that works with softlayer.
the tools they have on the portal our great so really would like to find a company thatworks with them. the co that softlayer suggested doesnt do windows support go figure!
I have been running my own spam protection on a dedicated server for a few years now. On the whole I probably catch 95% of spam.
Having just built a new server to replace my old one I'm keep to re-evaluate how I filter spam.
I am particularly interested in 3rd party filtering via MX records (why bother using my resources when I can pay someone a small amount to do a much better job than me?).
Can you recommend any providers?
I have used Postini in the past and like them but I can't find many resellers (I've seen a few references to $1 accounts on WHT..?)
I need a solution for approx 10 domains and 4 actual mailboxes (with quite a few aliases across all domains per mailbox).
i have tried everything to how i can limit each container to use bandwidth monthly , i only found a way to limit the outgoing speed/traffic , but i can't limit the traffic usage per month .
i have asked softlayer about that
Hello, You could limit traffic on a VPS container using 3rd party-softwares. But you need to look into these software solutions or contact your server administration company.
Anyway, what 3rd party software do you advice in installing,
What i want to do is like i limit container No.107 to not use over 200Gb container No.108 To not use over 300Gb , etc...
I have a CDONTS script which has been sending mail from a client's website form to their address. However, the script has suddenly stopped working. It doesn't error, they just don't receive the mail. I've tried CCing myself in the script and the mail is not getting through. The script itself is tried and tested and syntaxially correct.
I think the problem is because they're using their own exchange server, not the web hosts' mail server. Therefore I would expect that mail sent from the web script wouldn't go through because there is no local mail server to process it.
The problem is that the script hasn't changed, the host say their system hasn't changed, and the client's IT team say their exchange settings haven't changed!
I could set up a CDOSYS script to use their Exchange server to deal with the email, but their IT support won't allow relaying, so I don't think this is possible.
Is connecting to their Exchange box the only option, or should the website host still be able to process the web-script-generated mail despite not being their mail provider? I'm getting a lot of grief here, but it can't be the script that has suddenly broken because nobody has touched it!
We switched to a 3rd party mail server provided by our local ISP, however when attempts are made to mail anyone on our domain a message similar to one of the following is received:
Quote:
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
Hi. This is the qmail-send program. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
<my_email_address@our_domain>: 70.43.63.21 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 5.7.1 <my_email_address@our_domain>... Relaying denied Giving up on 70.43.63.21.
I've made sure the MX records are in place on our nameserver, and I've verified this with DNS Stuff.
I've always had hosting where everything is pretty much already setup. I am now considering getting my own dedicated server. I see most good packages are Self Managed Servers.
I'm not a system admin and never had any experience managing and setting up my own server. Is this a lot of work? Is this something that is also pretty easily learned or does this really take a lot of knowledge?
