On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 11:10:55 +0100 James Bensley jwbensley@gmail.com allegedly wrote:
Weird indeed! At $dayjob, when I arrived they were with 1and1, 1and1 lost all our DNS records and their tech support was a far away call centre who didn't even know what I was talking about...Moved to daily.co.uk and never looked back, I highly recommend them (well for domain and DNS management anyway as thats all we use them for).
Interesting. Since I have a VPS with daily I might consider them. I'm sort of worried about the "all eggs in one basket" syndrome if I have my mail and DNS (plus web/blog stuff) all with one company. My experience of losing a domain for eleven days was scary.
I can foresee a nightmare scenario in trying to move my main domains from 1and1 and then losing email (which would stop me being able to respond to domain transfer requests...). To forestall that I have already changed my administrative email details to a mailbox on my mail server on a domain managed at bytemark (so if my MX lights on the 1and1 domains go dark I can still function).
So far we have recommendations for daily and mythic-beasts (thanks Brett) and possibly dyndns (if my assumption about samwise Peter's domain is correct).
I confess to a preference for a UK based company. I want full DNS control (all records, including NS should I wish to point to another server) and no silly restrictions on the numbers of subdomains. So, any other recommendations chaps?
Many thanks in advance.
Mick
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