[consulting] Dedicated/Colocated Servers?

[Steven Peck]

The only time the company that is providing servers for your sites and
email should know you no longer rely on them for service is _after_
you've already gotten everything setup somewhere else and switched DNS
to point to your new IP Addresses.

Then if they in a fit of pique or whatever have no chance in hell of
dragging their feet over domain name service transfers, sudden lack of
access to backups, gaps in time between killing your servers and mis
communicating the name transfer etc.....

You should control your Domains Names at all times independent of your
sites location.  Always.  Without the names, you are unable to have
services, sites and name recognition.

-sp

> -----Original Message-----
> From: consulting-bounces at drupal.org
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> On Behalf Of Tom Friedhof
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 10:33 PM
> To: A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers
> Subject: Re: [consulting] Dedicated/Colocated Servers?
> 
> Would you like to elaborate?
> 
> On Jan 10, 2007, at 8:48 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> 
> > Tom Friedhof wrote:
> >> Yeah, I didn't realize they had dedicated servers either.  I have
all
> >> my domains there, so it makes it easy to have everything
consolidated
> >> in one place.
> > I've always taken it as good practise that your hosting service
should
> > not be the same company as the one managing your domains.
> >
> > - Evan
> >
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