I currently having a VPS through a hosting provider I would like to stick with but they don't offer all of the features (CPanel etc.) that some clients need.

I would like to stick to current said host and then possibly get a CPanel VPS package with PowerVPS.

Is it possible to still have all clients use the same name servers (ns1.* - ns3.*) when entering domain information yet locally it will route them to the correct server/IP that their account is setup on?

Or am I getting myself into too sticky of a situation?

Basically I want to try out two hosts and possibly use both at the same time and just manage accounts on both. Eventually I can pick one that provides the best service, uptime etc.

If I understand you correctly, yes. I have a Cpanel VPS with PowerVPS. However, my DNS servers are on a dedicated server I run elsewhere and I just point the appropriate records to the cPanel VPS.

If you wanted to use the cPanel DNS servers - you just make the approriate changes to the DNS Zones within cPanel to point back to your other VPS provider.

M.

It's set up this way for me. I use nameservers of my shared hosting (it seems to be rock stable, and I can't screw anything there :)) to handle my dedicated-host-based accounts.

Works like a charm, except that I have to manually update the zones on shared hosting when I modify smth on dedicated. However, my two cPanel's won't cluster (shared host won't allow it); if you are able to set up a cluster, you'll get quite a good setup.

Hi!
I do the same. I had a tremendous difficulty with nameservers running on a UML VPS server with CPanel...but oddly enough just one of the domains..an *.org. I just gave up and put the nameservers on the reseller accounts elsewhere. ????

You know...it's interesting...that is one piece of Cpanel I had mean to play around with and well...it's kinda late (100% Cpanel free now on the VPS's anyways) but I do still have that option on the two reseller accounts I still have, I believe. Dunno.

Bryon