[Gllug] VPS, MX records and Virtualmin

[Neil Macvicar]

It is true that you do not know what levels of fault tolerance any company provide unless you do your due diligence. 
But compared to someone running DNS on a cheap dedicated server with unknown administration, disaster recovery and DNS skills, the less risky option is with the commercial provider. 

Cheers, 
--Neil. 

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From: "- Tethys" <tethys at gmail.com> 
To: "Greater London Linux User Group" <gllug at gllug.org.uk> 
Sent: Thursday, 17 March, 2011 12:00:59 PM 
Subject: Re: [Gllug] VPS, MX records and Virtualmin 

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Neil Macvicar <neilm at kernelspace.co.uk> wrote: 

> You'd be better off using a registrars DNS system - more fault tolerant. 

That's not necessarily good advice. My nameservers are hosted with 
different companies in different datacentres using different upstream 
providers. Although you'd like to think that anyone providing DNS 
commercially would provide similar levels of fault tolerance, in my 
experience it tends not to be true as often as you'd hope. By doing it 
myself, I *know* how fault tolerant it is. 

Tet 

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