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Safety/FailOver Question

Posted May 7, 2014 3.7k views
with the global redundancy of DO, does it make ANY sense to operate my own DNS servers from a security/failover point of view?
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UKn0Me May 7, 2014
Yes.
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jt May 7, 2014
No. DO's DNS setup or another third party like CloudFlare would be better.
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jt May 7, 2014
You're better off not having all your eggs in one basket.
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webmaster484973 May 7, 2014
Yes. No. Good start............ :-)
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UKn0Me May 7, 2014
But hosting your own allows for DNS failover if for example one of your web servers goes down, it just changes the DNS record to point to another.
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UKn0Me May 7, 2014
It's probably best to go with a well known provider that has failover support such as Dyn, that way you'll get reliability on both fronts.
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webmaster484973 May 7, 2014
some more detail: I have all my droplets with DO, so a separate DNS server on DO's network doesn't make sense, right?
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UKn0Me May 7, 2014
Exactly.
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