[ovisopa]

Hello,

I am wondering If I should move few of my websites from godaddy hosting, now I have few questions.

1. When I add new websites, supbdomains, ftp users, databases, emails and so on I should wait for those to be activated or are made instantly ?
I have an reseler account on http://www.comcities.com which is ok but I dont have the space and bandwidth for my websites. Now 2 months I bougfht an account on godaddy and there are delays on every operation I make If I add a new database .. I have to wait , a new email .. a new ftp user . a new subdomain .. for all those I have to wait ~10 minutes

2. Can I use my own nameservers ?
On godaddy I can't use my own nameservers and first time when I setup the account I had ns3 and ns4 now .. I added a new website but it's not working with the same nameservers and I have to change them to ns1 and ns2 from now on.
I want to be able to set my own nameservers ns1.mynames.com ns2.mynames.com. Is this posible ?

3. Down time. I want the Crazy Domain Insane! plan, how much down time will I have ? I have any guarantee ?
I saw some messages on your site on hte last news about moving few dedicated servers. There was a person which was very disapointed becuase of this downtime in the last few months. On my reseler account Im used with 100% uptime, there are few months in this year with 100% uptime and this is great.

4. Webmail is a separate page for every domain or i have to give to the others, which I host the website the same admin I use for my main account ?

5. 200 emails / hour / main account or / website ? Can I see a log with sent emails, not only the emails sent by SMTP/IMAP but the one sent using PHP's mail() function. This will be great

For now those are my questions .. waiting your answers

Best regards,
ovidiu Sopa

[Raz2133]

Quote:Hello,

Hi and welcome to the forum

Quote:1. When I add new websites, supbdomains, ftp users, databases, emails and so on I should wait for those to be activated or are made instantly ?

Most things you add or configure through the panel will have some sort of delay. The delay period will vary depending on what you are doing, but generally you will have to wait 10 or 15 minutes for most changes to take effect.

Quote:2. Can I use my own nameservers ?

I am not sure if you mean you want to point to external DNS servers somewhere or you want to use the DreamHost DNS servers but have them shown as ns1.yourdomain.com etc. Both of these options are possible at DreamHost, but the second one does take a little extra configuring.

Quote:3. Down time. I want the Crazy Domain Insane! plan, how much down time will I have ? I have any guarantee ?

There is no uptime guarantee and I can't really give you any concrete uptime figures as uptime depends a lot on the individual server you end up on. All I can say is that my sites have generally had very good uptime since I have been here at DreamHost. It hasn't been perfect, but outages are not too frequent and usually of very short duration. On the rare occasions that I notice my sites are down, they are usually back up before I have a chance to lodge a support request.

Quote:4. Webmail is a separate page for every domain or i have to give to the others, which I host the website the same admin I use for my main account ?

Webmail is provided via SquirrelMail and is accessed through webmail.yourdomain.com

Quote:5. 200 emails / hour / main account or / website ? Can I see a log with sent emails, not only the emails sent by SMTP/IMAP but the one sent using PHP's mail() function. This will be great

I believe the limits are 100 per hour for SMTP and 200 per hour for scripts/shell etc. on a per domain basis, but you are advised to ask DreamHost this question directly for the definitive answer. I don't think we have access to raw mail logs, but once again, it would be best to ask DreamHost this question.

Mark

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[ovisopa]

2. Can I use my own nameservers ?

I am not sure if you mean you want to point to external DNS servers somewhere or you want to use the DreamHost DNS servers but have them shown as ns1.yourdomain.com etc. Both of these options are possible at DreamHost, but the second one does take a little extra configuring.

OK, I'll explain here what I want.

I have bought http://www.website.com from godaddy, on godaddy I setup ns1.website.com and ns2 to IP adreses from my current reseler hosting. All the websites hosted there ( 60 ) are using those nameserves.

Now two months ago I setup some new nameservers ns3.website.com and ns4 which points to godaddy IP's.

I bought a new domain and I set it up with ns3.website.com and ns4website.com but it does not work. The answer from godaddy was that shared solution cant use custom nameservers

So I want to have all my websites hosted (on whatever hosting company) have my own nameservers. If I need to change hosting company I wont have to edit only once , only the IP's where points a specific nameserver.

In the past I had this problem and needed to do this for ~40 websites (bought from romania .... .ro doamins), this job took me alot of time

so the question still stands, If I have to use my own nameservers can you do the setup, it is free ? should this setup be made for every domain I add in my account or only one time setup ?

[Raz2133]

Quote:OK, I'll explain here what I want.

OK, I *think* I understand what you are saying

When you say you want 'my own nameservers', you are really referring to having your domains registered elsewhere and creating an A-Record for ns1.website.com (and ns2 etc) that points to the IP address of the *real* nameserver. You then configure all your other domains to use these 'redirected nameservers', so if/when it comes time to move your sites, you simply need to configure the A-Record for ns1.website.com (and ns2 etc.) to the IP of the new real nameserver. Do I have this correct?

Quote:If I have to use my own nameservers can you do the setup, it is free ?

If my assumptions above are correct, then yes you can do this. However, there would be very little setup to be done here at DreamHost. You would simply need to add each domain to the DreamHost hosting system via the admin panel (while leaving the domains registered elsewhere) and create the A-Record at your registrar for ns1.website.com pointing at the IP address of ns1.dreamhost.com (and the same for ns2 etc.).

I am sorry if I misunderstood your explanation.

Mark

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[Raz2133]

Quote:Now two months ago I setup some new nameservers ns3.website.com and ns4 which points to godaddy IP's.

It just occured to me that in this sentence you might be referring to the setup of real nameservers, not simply a couple of A-Records redirecting nsX.website.com to the real nameservers where your sites are hosted.

If this is the case, such a configuration is going to be problematic for any shared hosting, due to IP addresses being shared amongst many domains and the fact that these IPs could change at any time.

Mark

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[ovisopa]

Yes, you understood corectly what I tried to say.
So i only have to update ns3.website.com from godaddy to point to the real IP address from dreamhost .. and the same with ns4 . This is realy simple from godaddy domain panel.

BTW .. my reseler hosting from comcities it is not dedicated, I;m on shared server so there is no problem with my nameservers.

The thing with .ro domains is that when I need to update ns or something else it takes some time, I have to complete a form, reply the auth code .. and then wait for people from ROTLD to make the change manualy I think ... if I need to update it on friday evening , saturday or sunday .. badluck, nobody is working there: (

Another thing.
Is there any gurantee for the download / upload speed ?

thank you

[Raz2133]

Quote:Yes, you understood corectly what I tried to say.

*whew* I thought I understood, but you can never be sure when it comes to the written word.

Quote:So i only have to update ns3.website.com from godaddy to point to the real IP address from dreamhost ..

Correct, you would need to modify the A-Records for your nsX.website.com sub-domains to point at the IP addresses of the real DreamHost nameservers, which at present are...

ns1.dreamhost.com = 66.33.206.206
ns2.dreamhost.com = 66.201.54.66
ns3.dreamhost.com = 66.33.216.216

Keep in mind that these IP addresses could change from time to time, but in reality this doesn't happen too often.

Of-course, you would also need to modify the DNS records for all your domains to use the nsX.website.com 'redirected nameservers', if you have not already done so.

Quote:The thing with .ro domains is that when I need to update ns or something else it takes some time, I have to complete a form, reply the auth code .. and then wait for people from ROTLD to make the change manualy I think ... if I need to update it on friday evening , saturday or sunday .. badluck, nobody is working there: (

*ouch*, I can fully understand how that would be a pain.

Quote:Is there any gurantee for the download / upload speed ?

No guarantee, but DreamHost has some pretty big pipes, so speed is generally excellent. Most speed problems are usually caused by DoS attacks or errant scripts eating CPU cycles on your shared server, but these things will happen on all shared hosting.

Mark

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[ovisopa]

Ok , Thankyou very much for your answers

Ill be back with more questions or maybe to setup the new account directly