3 ms·
I think you're technically increasing your points of failures by splitting domain and hosting. You're not adding redundancies by splitting the services. Since
by MichaelApproved 14y ago
I think you're technically increasing your points of failures by splitting domain and hosting.
You're not adding redundancies by splitting the services. Since these are mission critical services, if either fail, everything fails. Now by splitting up the services, you're increasing your risk of failure.
Take this scenario as an example. Suppose a random host will fail 1 out of every 500 days. Well now you have two hosts that could fail on 2 random days out of 500 days instead of just one host that'll fail once for every 500 days.
The above is not exact but i hope it gets the point across. I'm not saying dont split hosts, I do that myself. I'm just saying don't think you're limiting point of failure by dividing mission critical services apart. You need redundancy for that.
- jiggy2011 14y agoA dedicated DNS provider will provide a very good level of redundancy, for example DNSmadeeasy give you 5 nameservers to use which I believe are all hosted in different datacentres.
- saurik 14y agoNo: if your registrar goes offline for months you have not lost anything but your ability to update your DNS entries and renew your domain. Your registrar is NOT a mission critical service: it is the only way for you to recover if your DNS infrastructure needs to be replaced.