Anyone recommend a decent domain hosting service? I currently have huge.org.uk with Register1, but they have recently changed hands and the service has gone down hill dramatically in the last few weeks.
I just need an email server and a small, simple, web site. Nothing fancy.
Highly reccomended, my small website is hosted there and I have had no problems.
I use
And have done for the last few years with no issues
Andrew
On Thursday 13 February 2014 10:12 Huge wrote in uk.d-i-y:
We did this about 3-5 weeks back.
The conclusion was 123-Reg were adequate, but
If it's domain hosting vs domain registration, a bottom end linode vm running linux and DIY bind plus linode offer slave DNSs.
+1 for 123-reg
( does that make it 124-reg??)
On Thursday 13 February 2014 12:48 Bob Minchin wrote in uk.d-i-y:
But I would not start afresh with them - they are tolerable if your stuck with them already.
3 bugbears: TTL is not controllable; web pages are a bit random and weirdly programmed; no bulk API or quick way to do stuff.
If I understood what you were talking about I'd maybe be worried but I don't so I'm not :)
TTL is Transistor Transistor Logic to me - ie the 7400 series and is eminently controllable. API is the Application Programming Interface ie hooks into the windows operating system for calling up subroutines so not sure why I'd want bulk ones :)
Andrew
Time To Live. How you can adjust the recommended cache time on DNS proxies.
Its very handy of you are about to move a server from one IP address to another. If you set the TTL down to say a couple of minutes before you do this, then at worst people will look at the 'old' server for no more than that once you make the change.
Of course if you LEAVE it like that it generates and unholy amount of needless DNS traffic...
You can work around it by delegating the domain to a different name server under your control of course.
On Thursday 13 February 2014 13:21 Andrew Mawson wrote in uk.d-i-y:
Time To Live
Basically a hint (and it is only a hint) to downstream caches (including the end client).
However, as much as people like to say it is ignored, it does help in many cases to drop it down to an hour a few days before making a DNS change that points to a live site.
I do a lot of this which is why lack of TTL control is annoying.
All O/S's, not just Wintendo.
I suspect he also means applying the same change to many objects at one go, rather than one at a time.
Also applies to IP packets. And doubtless much else.
These are the people I use:
I have known the owner since he used to come around with a bag of tools to sort out problems on my computers. They are invariably helpful and always seem to know what they are talking about.
Colin Bignell
Thanks.
mythic-beasts.com
No connection, other than as a long-standing customer.
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