Thursday, March 6, 2008

DNS destination

So, things have slowed down a bit in terms of side projects over the last few days. We are still waiting on the A/C, the new ethernet switch, and for the two post rack to be mounted on the cluster front. I have a bit of work that I need to get done on my thesis (which I will actually be posting about later today hopefully) and in general, everything else is running smoothly. Sadly, that doesn't generate much material for posts, but there is perhaps something of interest in all of this.

We recently decided to bring a few sites that we maintain which are hosted at shared hosting providers 'in house.' This is a tedious process of freezing, backing up, copying, deploying, reconfiguring, testing, and then updating DNS data so that the website hits the new server (at least eventually). At one point, we used to do our own DNS hosting, but while convenient for some things, this actually proved to be a very inconvenient strategy at some point. Instead, we now use Nettica, which has proven to be very reliable.

Anyway, check back later for hopefully some more interesting content.

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