We’re getting our fingers into a few diverse but complimentary pies, and wanted to let you know about some of the other things we offer that you may not know about, and some new stuff that you definitely don’t know about!

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Backup MX Services

Backup MX Records help a lot in making sure that you don’t lose mail - if you do a Google search for Backup MX Services you’ll find them offered from a number of places. What you find is them offered for as little as $1 per domain per month, and that’s what you’d pay us if you wanted it.

We only offer it at this price to DrakNet clients. We’ve offered it for a while and we have a number of you using it, but it’s possible some more of you may benefit from it. Backup MX gives you a secondary mail delivery point in case your mail ever goes down and won’t accept anything. It’ll stay there in a holding bin, so to speak, checking periodically to see if your mail server is up. Once it is, it will deliver the mail to you.

What that, you say? We have phenomenal uptime and you would never need that kind of insurance? Well, thanks for saying that and you’d be right if that’s all you had to depend on (and look, things happen - you buy insurance for things that are unlikely but bad). If you install a mailbox, leave a bunch of mail in it and your mail quota fills up, guess what happens to that mail? That’s right. It bounces like a rubber ball on asphalt.

What’s that, you say? You would never do that? Buddy, I got tickets going back years saying that you’re wrong. It is, frankly, the most common reason mail goes bouncy.

http://monitoring.drak.net/

DrakNet Monitoring will allow you to monitor your web site or server routinely, alert you if there is a problem, or alert us if there is a problem - everything is defined by you. This can be added to your DrakNet account or purchased separately via PayPal on the Monitoring Site itself.

We have a 14 day free trial available here, as well as a demo site available if you follow the link above. This is a great buy if you want to monitor more than Apache on your server or VPS, or program it to harrass us for you while you sleep on the off chance anything goes down. If you’re a reseller, you can get a pretty graph to put on your site as well.

DrakNet Monitoring is powered by Hyperspin, so no, you’re not actually being monitored by the same network you’re on. That would just be silly.

DNS Failover and System Monitoring

If your website/service is down you can now automatically send all of your users to another system. This is meant for primarily static sites that need high availability, and is not meant for dynamic sites that are backended by constantly changing information without added configuration.

We can provide multiple sites on separate servers, multiple sites in separate data centers, and many other various configurations. Due to the possibility of several different configurations, pricing will vary on this service (including the hosting accounts for the multiple sites). Please contact us for what you are trying to accomplish, and we’ll get you a quote.

Shared Hosting Data Center Has Shiny New Pipes

Since we’re announcing cool stuff, here’s something you get for free - we’d like to announce since the last “Pipe Crash” connectivity slowdown at Liquid Web that they have brought two new pipes online and they are lit up and moving.

This now puts the Michigan NOC’s (the shared hosting data center) connectivity at twice available what peak time max’s out at. In plain English, a pipe can go down and now there is the capacity to re-route traffic without any routes seeing the latency that was visible the last several times there was a problem.

The Pennsylvania NOC (our VPS and Dedicated Data Center) has also recently upgraded its connectivity as well, and folks on those servers should be seeing faster speeds at peak time.