Also, is it common for a reseller to resell for more than one provider and market different resold accounts under your own service? Such as selling larger accounts with more bandwidth and features at a higher price from one reseller provider and then selling more budget accounts from another? Or Windows based accounts from another provider? Is it good or bad to do that? How would you handle your DNS accross 2 different providers then (with your own Nameservers)?

Thanks!

I don't know how common it is, but I know a handful of people that do just that (resell for more than one place). Whether it's considered a good thing or bad thing it's up to you. As long as you can keep up with the systems that your clients are on then fine. If you don't know a thing about windows or the other you may want to do some massive research before leaping into the water.

Hello

DNS matters can be solved very easy.

Ask your second host to create nameserver aliases as ns3.yourdomain.com and ns4.yourdomain.com (assumming ns1 and ns2 are used for first host)

Now ask your customers that use second host to configure their domain name with ns3 and ns4 and your customers for first host to use ns1 and ns2.

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Thanks for responding!

Ok, so tell one host to setup my own nameservers as ns1.mysitename.com and ns2.mysitename.com and then tell my other provider to set up ns3.mysitename.com and ns4.mysitename.com nameservers for my clients with them? Isn't there any more configuration to be done? don't I need to have my main host that hosts mysitename.com acknowledge the host that has n3 and ns4 at all?

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I don't see why they'd have to do that. They're 2 separate systems and ns1/2 goes to different servers than ns3/4 do. The clients are on different machines as well so there's not really a need to go between the two.

Yes you need to configure nameserver IPs on your domain name.

You must create 4 dns servers

ns1.domain.com : IP Address of nameserver 1 at host1
ns2.domain.com : IP Address of nameserver 2 at host1

ns3.domain.com : IP Address of nameserver 1 at host2
ns4.domain.com : IP Address of nameserver 2 at host2

When someone tries to browse or connect a host on first service he will connect to root servers to ask for your nameservers and it will report ns1 and ns2 because you have told him to set these nameservers on his domain and IP's will be resolved by either ns1 or ns2.

When someone tries to browse or connect a host on second service he will connect to root servers to ask for your nameservers and it will report ns3 and ns4 because you have told him to set these nameservers on his domain and IP's will be resolved by either ns3 or ns4 and therefore connections will go to correct server and host.

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