<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 25/06/2012, at 4:50 PM, Mark Newton wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Getting a diverse pair of VPSs from different service providers<br>ain't rocket science, and certainly isn't expensive.</span></blockquote></div><br><div>Agreed.</div><div><br></div><div>I previously used external DNS hosting services but with about 50 zones the cost was adding up.</div><div><br></div><div>I already had an IPv6 enabled server in Australia, so I purchased two additional IPv6 enabled VPSs - one in San Jose, another in London. I setup a DNS cluster and added a control panel to it as well. If you add a zone or record, it's automatically synchronised across all three locations within a few seconds.</div><div><br></div><div>That was over a year ago now. It now handles all of my domains and others for some people that I know. It's peaked at 1,800 queries per second and handles about 40m queries per month :)</div><div><br></div><div>With the flexibility that it provides at the minimal cost point I can't see myself going back to off the shelf services.</div><div><br></div><div>Of course you still need the skills (and time/inclination) to setup and maintain an environment to begin with. If you don't, then external services still most certainly have their place.</div><div><br></div><div>-Shaun</div></body></html>