[dba-Tech] Upgrade your web sites' DNS

[Jim Lawrence]

This site has been around for a few months but it is fairly new to me. 

When going through regular Domain setup, at a traditional web hosting company like Dotster or GoDaddy, the Name Service default can be fairly simple.... But if a more complex solution is needed like multiple fail-over IP addresses and/or website locations, the price for this additional service adds to the cost. OTOH, there are a number of third party Name Service providers that allow management of multiple point of failure, unlimited subnets and a host of other flexible options: example ZoneEdit. Their costs are either free or inexpensive especially for limited through-put demand and/or for a community and non-profit web site.

The one thing these Name Service providers do not help with is improving bandwidth, migrating/changing IP addresses, site access monitoring or do they manage connection security (https) and related site certificates. One site that provides similar services to that of providers like ZoneEdit but far extended with a host of addition services, as described above, is CloudFlare. Check it out:

https://www.cloudflare.com/

Jim