OK, here is the brief of the issue.
Up until recently we had a small satellite office in London and one in Sweden. This allowed us to have DNS servers located in three different locations and also a backup mail queue offsite. This allowed for a site to lose connectivity and DNS would continue to work, any mail would be queued up waiting for our main office connection to come back.
So fast forward and suddenly two DNS servers and the only mail queue are now running from one site - and I don't like it!
I need a service that would give me a server environment with a dedicated IP address. On this service I could install a DNS server and allow it to slave from our main DNS server located at our main office.
I'd also be able to setup a backup mail server with a lower priority MX - so we had a backup location for mail.
Would a VPS service allow me to do this? I think "Hosted server" is too much. Both of these services would require so little resources (from space, CPU and RAM) so a hosted server seems overkill - whereas a hosted "virtual server" should be sufficient.
So with all that in mind. Anybody want to recommend a VPS service that would give me full root access so we can install and configure what we need to do as well as giving us a separate dedicated IP address so we can setup DNS and MX records?
If VPS is not the way forward - what should I be seeking?
Cheers
Oh and my suggestion to my boss of her installing a 100mb leased line to my house and I'll run the DNS and backup mail queue unfortunately fell on deaf ears
Up until recently we had a small satellite office in London and one in Sweden. This allowed us to have DNS servers located in three different locations and also a backup mail queue offsite. This allowed for a site to lose connectivity and DNS would continue to work, any mail would be queued up waiting for our main office connection to come back.
So fast forward and suddenly two DNS servers and the only mail queue are now running from one site - and I don't like it!
I need a service that would give me a server environment with a dedicated IP address. On this service I could install a DNS server and allow it to slave from our main DNS server located at our main office.
I'd also be able to setup a backup mail server with a lower priority MX - so we had a backup location for mail.
Would a VPS service allow me to do this? I think "Hosted server" is too much. Both of these services would require so little resources (from space, CPU and RAM) so a hosted server seems overkill - whereas a hosted "virtual server" should be sufficient.
So with all that in mind. Anybody want to recommend a VPS service that would give me full root access so we can install and configure what we need to do as well as giving us a separate dedicated IP address so we can setup DNS and MX records?
If VPS is not the way forward - what should I be seeking?
Cheers
Oh and my suggestion to my boss of her installing a 100mb leased line to my house and I'll run the DNS and backup mail queue unfortunately fell on deaf ears
