silenttalk
Technical User
Hi, I am very new to hosting, so please bear with me. I have set up my own private hosting box IIS 7.5 and WebsitePanel. I am also running DNS server on the same box. I am concerned that if my box goes down all my customers websites go down with it, as does the DNS Server.
The main server box (web & Dns) is configured on 5 static IP's and I have the name servers on the domain registrants site pointing to my two locally held name servers. ns1.mydomain.co.uk and ns2.mydomain.co.uk, there are also two Glue records at the registrant that point these name servers to 81.XXX.XXX.1 and 81.XXX.XXX.2, both these IP addresses are held on one physical server.
I have another box running at a seperate location that has one dynamically assigned IP address from the ISP. What I would like to do is set up a third name server at the registrant to point via some DDNS service to the second machine at the other building. As this is dynamic, I couldnt add a glue record for this at the registrants control panel.
Therefore if ns1 and ns2 fail because my main hosting box has failed and is off. NS3 (DDNS) will kick requests to the other server.
I am not sure if what I am thinking about would or could work or quite how to achive it.
Any help would be very warmly received.
The main server box (web & Dns) is configured on 5 static IP's and I have the name servers on the domain registrants site pointing to my two locally held name servers. ns1.mydomain.co.uk and ns2.mydomain.co.uk, there are also two Glue records at the registrant that point these name servers to 81.XXX.XXX.1 and 81.XXX.XXX.2, both these IP addresses are held on one physical server.
I have another box running at a seperate location that has one dynamically assigned IP address from the ISP. What I would like to do is set up a third name server at the registrant to point via some DDNS service to the second machine at the other building. As this is dynamic, I couldnt add a glue record for this at the registrants control panel.
Therefore if ns1 and ns2 fail because my main hosting box has failed and is off. NS3 (DDNS) will kick requests to the other server.
I am not sure if what I am thinking about would or could work or quite how to achive it.
Any help would be very warmly received.