So, we wanted to update you on what we’ve done - we’ve moved drak.net to its own box at WiredTree (which is, ironically enough, a company founded by some admins that left LiquidWeb to form their own company and who we’ve worked with before). The main DNS server is also shifting to that box - we’ve left both sites and both DNS servers up and will continue to do so for a week to minimize any issues for folks.

This gets us prepared for catastrophe in a number of ways.

First, DrakNet is offsite, so it will remain up during any outage - we now have four points of redundancy. The Billing/Support server is in one place, networkstatus.drak.net is in another, the drak.net site is in yet another, and then the hosted sites are at yet another. All four networks going down at once is highly unlikely, so in almost any catastrophic event, you’ll be able to get a hold of us in or at one of those three places. In addition, we’ve noticed that despite seeing sites down and not being able to see our site, ya’ll still send an email (which doesn’t seem to occur to some of you as a TAD bit pointless), and that solves that issue handily. Should the worst ever happen and we ever have to move out, you’ll still be able to communicate with us about it as if life were normal, and we can get information out to you.

This is not something we anticipate happening - however, it doesn’t hurt to be overly prepared.

We’ve also moved the DNS servers completely out of the primary data center - this enables us to have access to DNS no matter what is going on, and speed up any moves that may need to take place. Again, not something we anticipate needing but it doesn’t hurt to be prepared.

Tags: connectivity, redundancy

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