Dantheman M3SERVER WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!

[yanone]

ok, well i've got some news from Simplecom ! have to say i'm much less worry now. You 're right, people only post when m3 down and indeed since 2005 it has been rare.

Getting no answers is the worst thing cause it makes people imagine the worst. To people now reading this i want to say the confidence with M3 came back for us, i guess those who staid with M3 all this years are just like us, they like M3 and wish to be loyal... Most of the time the tech team, and the service just rocks, that 's why right now i feel good getting feebdack from them. Time will tell but seems things are fine with them right now.

like you Sarettah, the down of friday broke a whole day of developpment. About running an own dns, do you know if we can make point the domain to an external IP than the one hosting the 'home' dns ? I mean, imagine you pay for 2 servers on 2 different hosting company, can you, with your 'home dns' siwthc the domain from one server to the other by your self ?

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by yanone

like you Sarettah, the down of friday broke a whole day of developpment. About running an own dns, do you know if we can make point the domain to an external IP than the one hosting the 'home' dns ? I mean, imagine you pay for 2 servers on 2 different hosting company, can you, with your 'home dns' siwthc the domain from one server to the other by your self ?

Yes. There are several different ways to pull off a mirror that would show pretty much uninterrupted when a down time occurred.

The easiest is just inside your domains dns settings for the primary and secondary dns set it to point at the main server. For a tertiary (or beyond) set it to point at the backup server. In theory, the only time that a call for the address should see the tertiary setting is if the primary and secondary name server are down then it would find the tertiary and go to that address.

If you want to do it with just one dns server, like a home dns setup, then there will be a lag of some sort between when you change the dns to point at the backup and all the various net denizons pick up that change.

There are no perfect scenarios because of the various dns cache schemas out there.