Thanks Chris. I made an assumption on that based on other forum posts that indicated that if you change DC's, you have to re-do all your DNS Manager zones. In fact, I found much discussion around this, including a script to help in that migration. That being the case, I just naturally assumed that the DNS Manager entries were then tied to the DC.

Are you saying that if I transitioned to Atlanta, say, tomorrow, that I would not have to make ANY changes to my DNS Manager zones (other than what I choose to make personally)?

Thanks!
bruce

For the record, and lest I sound less than happy here, I am INCREDIBLY VERY REALLY happy with Linode. It's a class act! I can't tell you how many shoddy hosts there are out there, and although I waffled on signing up with Linode, as soon as I got into the control panel and booted up my first node in 15 minutes, I have been smiling the whole time.

Seriously, the issues with Fremont just have me concerned. As a newbie hoster here, naturally I am a bit worried when I see issues like this pop up. Multiple issues. Maybe it's just coincidence that they all happened now, but it was a bit concerning.

Overall though? You'd have to pull out my fingernails before I'd move off of Linode. Just sayin'.



Yes, i have been thinking about off-site backups. I may actually do that. I haven't yet had the need to do a Linode restore, but I like the security and convenience of the service.

As for DNS, that's what I USED to do. When I moved here, I actually had my own DNS up and running, but honestly, if they can do it better (and it seems to be very simple), then why should I utilize my bandwidth and have to do the admin for it on the box. This way my DNS is managed at a meta-layer above my servers.

I note that my secondary DNS is still hosted with afraid.org, which is also very cool.

Mahalo a nui loa!
Bruce

Well, you'd have fix any IP addresses in records for the Linode you moved, since it would get a new address in the new DC. But the DNS manager (and DNS zone hosting) is part of your account, not a specific Linode or DC. In practice your account's zone data is then distributed among the 5 Linode nameservers (one per data center).

In terms of recent discussions and/or scripts, you're probably thinking of API scripts to perform the IP change in bulk, but that's just changing individual records, no different than you'd have to do with any DNS hosting - you don't have to recreate zones or anything.

-- David