TCH-Rob Posted January 19, 2005 Posted January 19, 2005 As TotalChoice has grown over the past few years, so have the loads on our Name Servers. As many of you know, in 2003 we moved to a totaly redundant DNS system using two name servers in two seperate datacenters. This has been a very good system. Acheiving almost 100% uptime of DNS resolution. As the number of domains we host has grown we have been closley watching the two name servers. Our administration team has suggested the need for implementation of another set of redundant name servers. This will insure that DNS queiries stay fast and efficient. Currently our DNS servers are receiveing a grade of "A" from DNS Stuff.com. http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnstime.ch?n...ting.com&type=A In a effort to continue this level of service we are implementing dns3.totalchoicehosting.com and dns4.totalchoicehosting.com effective with Server93 and beyond. These new nameservers are online and ready for production workloads. We will start using the new servers for new accounts only. These will be for accounts placed on Server 93 or above. If you're registering a new domain through us the name servers will be automatically set to the new nameservers. Therfore, new clients will not need to set the information for DNS nameservers. However, if you're an exsisting client and your account is on server 92 or below and you register a domain name, you will need to make sure you're using ns1.totalchoicehosting.com and ns2.totalchoicehosting.com. For those wondering why DNS3 and DNS4 and not NS3 and NS4 it is because we are using those for another machine.
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