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Originally Posted by rroopstr
Do all VPS providers advertise two domain name servers? Customers are led to believe they are buying redundancy while they actually aren't.
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Hosting companies and companies that are selling DNS services will have multiple DNS servers, so customers are buying redundancy.
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Originally Posted by rroopstr
The reply I got from my provider was that I was welcome to purchase a second contract if I wanted a second IP address. I was not told so when they spotted me shopping around for alternatives. What is the industry business standard in this case?
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For VPS, and indeed most hosting a single IP address is standard with the option to buy more. A second IP address in your case wouldn't make any difference as it would be on the same physical server so it's still just DNS pointed at a single instance. Business standard is... "you get what you pay for". VPS services now are "commodity" services and sold at a price point.
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Originally Posted by rroopstr
What is your recommendation now that it's obvious that I can only count with a single DNS ?
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I can't really recommend anything as it's all up to you and what you want to achieve. If you want to learn about managing DNS etc. then BIND is the way to go, and go with a single server. The whole point of having multiple DNS servers is a throw-back to the earlier days of the internet when servers were:
- More segmented - Single function per server, so your DNS servers wouldn't be the same physical server as your website, your mail servers would also be separate etc.
- Less reliable - So if your one DNS server failed you'd have another to do the job.
With my first "own" website (1998) when I moved to my own hosting (dedicated servers, VPSs weren't a thing then!) I did everything, web, DNS, email. Now..... DNS and mail are outsourced. I use my domain registrar for DNS, I just edit my zone-file through a web interface and let them deal with everything else. As for email, that got outsourced years ago to Google Apps. Now I don't have to bother with configuring spam filters, keeping them up to date, making sure there are new "recipes", and more importantly, not having to deal with all the spam, because even with spam filters the spam still hits the server! Also with Google, my mail is available anywhere, on any device. I don't have to install my own webmail app, my own sync app or anything else.
So, as for a recommendation.....
If you want to learn and enjoy that kind of thing then do it yourself, do your DNS on a single server and have fun. It'll be a good learning experience.
If you want don't want the extra workload and would prefer to concentrate on your websites then make use of your registrar's DNS service or your hosting companies DNS service.
