[consulting] Dedicated/Colocated Servers?

[Morbus Iff]

> cant see how this would be a valid reason. since you own the domain,
> you can point where the dns-es would be. so when a provider goes AWOL
> you can go to your registar and point the DNS to the next ISP which
> you have choosen on better grounds than "3 dollar per month for
> unlimmited bandwith"

His point, which I agree with, is that your registrar
AND your hosting company could be the same thing.

  * You register a domain at GoDaddy.
  * You keep the nameservers pointing to GoDaddy.
  * You use GoDaddy hosting services.

That's the single point of failure he's talking about.

Consider also that transferring a domain to another registrar requires 
an authorization code from the current registrar. If that registrar is 
gone (in his doomsday scenario), you can't get the auth code, and thus, 
can't transfer the domain without headaches.

Your situation, where you:

  * Register a domain at (for example) GoDaddy.
  * Point the nameservers at (for example) ZoneEdit.com.
  * Point your A records to (for example) Dreamhost.com.

has no single point of failure (well, there's still the problem of 
GoDaddy going bellyup and not providing lookups for your domain anymore, 
thus invalidating the nameservers and webhosts, but that's a doomsday 
scenario that's relatively unlikely).

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