<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Shachar Shemesh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shachar@shemesh.biz">shachar@shemesh.biz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;border-right:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex">
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On 06/17/2011 05:06 PM, shimi wrote:
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<div>Amazon's cloud[1] is a bit cheaper: $12/yr/domain. You also pay for
queries (not too much, set the TTL high and I guess you'll be fine).
Your call however :)<br>
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They have a very easy to use DNS management API IMHO. Good if you want
to integrate in your control panel and everything.<br>
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Here's something to ponder. I host my own email, as well as my own DNS
servers. Over the past five years, my uptime was higher (in some cases,
considerably higher) than the cloud services.<br>
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This is not so much because I'm a better admin than Amazon/Google, but
because size does matter here, and not necessarily in a good way.<div class="im"><br>
<br></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>In general, I would totally agree with you on that, Shachar. Over the past ten years, my uptime was considerably higher than of my ISPs, Telco's, and hosting providers. <br>
<br>Unlike you I do not host everything myself, however; I was fine with the DNS being hosted at the hosting company I was using, until one day their whole network went down, and although they have secondary nameservers outside their network, it seems that when millions of websites go down, sometimes the backup servers can't take the full load of the clients. <br>
<br>So my website was down (I can live with that, otherwise I wouldn't use <$10/mo. webhosting service), but so was my mail, which is NOT hosted with that hosting company (but without MX records, you can't get your email, can you...). <br>
<br>Mail is a very important tool for me, and a few hours downtime is unacceptable. Since I don't want that ever happening again, I agree to shell out a considerable amount of money (in terms of Hosting costs :)), and put it on Amazon Route53, where multiple _unrelated_ datacenters, will provide it with service. On the way I earn very low resolve times, worldwide, which is something that is hard to do yourself if you're not big enough (like the BGP notes above...), and compensate a bit for the slow initial load time of the website which is not under CDN...<br>
<br>My 2c :)<br><br>-- Shimi<br></div></div></div>