I guess this post didn't really excite anyone, zero feedback ;) Well I'd like to officially register my interest in having SRV records in the Tucows Managed DNS system. I'll lay out why I think these could be really useful for us as resellers. I'm hardly the leading authority on DNS so let me know if I'm missing something here.
SRV records let you determine priority and weight given to a number of A records (in the same way as MX records). This means we could offer affordable load balancing or site fall over plans for our clients. I'm not talking large scale clustering and redundancy but simply being able to offer a solution for small business clients. In the event their hosting failed, their customers would be presented with a contact page / or a copy of the static web site. I know synchronizing databases is another issue but for small businesses it's more about having an explanation for their clients and contact details. Selling 'insurance' hosting could be extremely good business for us. We're not asking our clients to move host, this is an additional service sold to those who already have hosting. Rather a large market there. Of course this would only sell if backed up by the kind of reliability that you are building into the Tucows DNS service. This seems like a great way to build on that? The other interesting function of SRV is being able to tie A records to ports, allowing us to offer domain addresses for VoIP (i.e. ring me on mydomain.com or phone.mydomain.com on their web site). This is a fast growing market and it seems sensible that people will want to use their own domains as their 'phone numbers' in the future. Best Regards, Nick Managing Director e3internet http://www.e3internet.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Wilsdon Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 5:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [domains-gen] rrset-order/SRV records in MDNS Are there any plans in the future to add rrset-order or SRV records to the Managed DNS service? It would be great to build on the reliability of this service and offer our clients a low-cost solution for server/site failure. Best Regards, Nick Managing Director e3internet http://www.e3internet.com _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
