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[jauburn]

What's the best way to set up nameservers? During configuration of my new dedicated server, WHM gave me the opportunity to set up nameservers on the server itself. I did. Since that time, I have read that it's best to have the nameservers somewhere else. Is that true? I'm confused.

[040Hosting]

the best configuration depends really on your situation, you can run both nameservers on the same machine, but it means that as the nameserver crashes the sites would not be available anymore (there would be not alternative location to check for the records anymore).

Although if your server crashes; it also means that your sites are not reachable, but that would be anyway the case as the webserver is down in such a case as well. Only if you use i.e. a backup MX server (mail server) it would have been a good thing your nameserver kept reachable to mail could have been send to a secondary location, but we dont see many who really do have a secondary mx location.

If the outages would be short; and you can restore your service quickly it mostly would run fine in a single nameserver setup; granted it is not optimal and if you have the resources to host a secondary nameserver; it certainly does not harm.

It is always a question of what you try to accomplish and what budget you have to do it.

[J Gwynne PC Repair]

you should always have more than one nameserver and with cpanel it's dead easy.

get yourself some cheap VPS's

setup cpanel dns only on them and link them to the dns cluster in cpanel/whm set them up to synhcronise and forcibly push a sync to them (change your name server ip's)

with your current setup should your server crash/go offline your e-mail will bounce back to the sender, wheras as long as your dns is still resolving it will fail with a temporary error and be queued to resend at a later time.

With the importance of mail a backup mx setup is also a good idea to have

joe