slade
03-24-2005, 03:16 PM
Resellers, would like to be able to offer secondary DNS services to all your clients?
(call it market research)
(call it market research)
 | View Full Version : Secondary DNS for your clients? Captian_Spike 03-24-2005, 05:44 PM I think its a nice feature. It certainly won't be the desicion making factor when choosing. But would probally tip the scale in your favor when compared against a similar host that did not have it. ACcomunica 03-24-2005, 06:34 PM I'm not sure if I know what you mean. Like having a secondary DNS in case the primary DNS server is down? Is that possible? How? cartika-andrew 03-24-2005, 06:39 PM Originally posted by ACcomunica I'm not sure if I know what you mean. Like having a secondary DNS in case the primary DNS server is down? Is that possible? How? If I understand this question correctly - a clustered H-Sphere host will often have DNS services on 2 different servers for redundancy - so if the primary DNS server is down for whatever reason, secondary DNS is still active... ACcomunica 03-24-2005, 06:57 PM Is that an exclusive feature of H-Sphere? Having a secondary DNS in a different server would reduce downtime virtually to zero. Right? Sounds to good to be true... cartika-andrew 03-24-2005, 07:05 PM Originally posted by ACcomunica Is that an exclusive feature of H-Sphere? Having a secondary DNS in a different server would reduce downtime virtually to zero. Right? Sounds to good to be true... Im not quite sure if its exclusive to H-Sphere - I believe Plesk offers something similar (and Im sure others can probably accomplish this as well)... Also - separating your DNS alone will not assure zero downtime, but, it will certainly decrease the probability of downtime. For example - control panel and dns1 on one server and mysql and dns2 on another - (then theres the mail server and web servers - web1, web2, etc..) If we take the cp server down for maintenance (or if it blows up) - customers still have full access to their sites and resources (everything except the control panel obviously) - and DNS2 takes the load... I dont think any solution is perfect - but, h-sphere clustering sure does make things better... ACcomunica 03-24-2005, 07:10 PM *** off topic *** Is it possible to use RVSkin (or similar) in H-Sphere to support multiple languages and themes? Thank you for your time CartikaHosting. cartika-andrew 03-24-2005, 07:14 PM Originally posted by ACcomunica Is it possible to use RVSkin (or similar) in H-Sphere to support multiple languages and themes? H-Sphere inherently supports multiple languages. There are several skins available for H-Sphere that some hosts have purchased and make available. One of them is called "custom skin" - which allows you to completely customize its look and feel in order to match your business branding... Shaw Networks 03-24-2005, 09:03 PM Not in demand at all, out of all the reseller clients we host, no one has ever requested the service. cartika-andrew 03-24-2005, 09:17 PM Originally posted by IncognitoNetworks Not in demand at all, out of all the reseller clients we host, no one has ever requested the service. Agreed - most resellers arent even aware they have it - or what it is - except that when we bring the CP server down for maintenance or upgrades - none of their sites go down.. More then anything it helps the provider maintain SLA's - those reseller customers acute enough to look for it, understand the benefits... |