[consulting] Dedicated/Colocated Servers?

[Tom Friedhof]

You're point might be valid when using smaller companies like you  
mentioned with "really inexpensive and/or of unproven stability".   
That's why you should do the research before having one company  
manage the domains and the hosting.  GoDaddy net profits almost $12  
million a year[1].  I highly doubt they fall into the category that  
you're speaking off, especially if you compare to tucows, who have  
been around for a while, but have a higher burn rate so they only net  
$3 million a year[2].  I understand where you're coming from because  
I used to be diversified and have several registrars handle my  
domains and have a different company handle my dedicated servers  
several years ago, but I consolidated all that to GoDaddy for ease of  
manageability once I did the research.

Also, if you have one company only handle the management of your  
domain, and they go belly up, how does your domain handle lookups?   
Root DNS servers won't know where the authoritative DNS servers are  
homed after the TTL expires.

Tom

[1] http://www.hoovers.com/go-daddy/--ID__133272--/free-co- 
factsheet.xhtml
[2] http://www.hoovers.com/tucows/--ID__51452--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml

On Jan 11, 2007, at 5:33 AM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

> Tom Friedhof wrote:
>> Would you like to elaborate?
>>
> I've seen instances where a hosting service went totally AWOL --  
> dropped
> off the face of the earth. By having the domain registration at  
> another
> location, they were able to get another hosting service, restore
> backups, change the DNS, and be back up in very little total delay.
>
> So this practise makes special sense when dealing with hosting  
> services
> that are really inexpensive and/or of unproven stability. Hosting
> services never tell their customers that they're not paying their own
> bills, untill it's too late.
>
> Regardless of where hosted, almost all the domains I've made are  
> done at
> Tucows, which has been around forever.
>
> - Evan
> _______________________________________________
> consulting mailing list
> consulting at drupal.org
> http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/consulting