Managed
DNS Services Features
Domain
Name System (DNS), although often overlooked, is
essential to virtually every Internet transaction, and
hence an extremely crucial service for ensuring that
your web site and email continue to function correctly.
We provide you DNS Services on a highly optimized,
globally distributed, redundant (n+1), robust DNS
infrastructure, that is geared to deliver 100% DNS
uptime and offer unmatched DNS query response times.
The Managed DNS Services
includes:
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Easy-to-use Web based Interface for DNS Management
More than 90% of the web hosting companies worldwide
do not provide you with an interface to manage your
own DNS Records. With each of our hosting package
you have the ability to add and manage up to 100
records for FREE! using our powerful yet easy-to-use
web based UI. -
Total Control over SOA, A, MX, CNAME, NS records and
TTL
You can add, modify, delete all types of records
through the web based interface. All additions and
modifications will reflect instantly on every DNS
server. You can even set and change TTL on a per
record basis, and modify all the SOA parameters. -
ZERO propagation delay for any additions or updates
Our DNS servers use a custom version of BIND which
allows any zone additions or modifications to
reflect immediately across all our DNS Servers
without requiring any restarts. The propagation time
for any DNS changes is thus zero. -
Geographically distributed cluster of servers in
world-class facilities geared to deliver 100% DNS
uptime
Research and studies show that a lot of hosting
companies tend to distribute their DNS servers
poorly mainly due to lack of resources, planning and
expertise. A study conducted by Men & Mice of five
thousand randomly selected .com domains showed that
38% of tested zones were located in one subnet, thus
increasing significantly the risk of downtime due to
a single point of failure. DNS downtime can bring
down a companies website or email for up to 48 hours
even after the service comes up due to caching
practises of ISP's.
Our distributed DNS architecture is built by
subject-matter experts after a lot of careful
planning and comprises of n+1 servers, spread across
data centers in different geographies, ensuring that
there is NO single point of failure. -
Support for round robin DNS
Round-robin DNS is a load balancing technique by
which the balance power is placed in the DNS server.
For example, suppose a company has three identical
web sites hosted on three different servers. The
company can enable round-robin DNS so that when a
user accesses the website he/she will be sent to the
first server (first IP Address), the second user who
accesses the website will be sent to the next server
(second IP Address), the third user to the third
server (third IP Address), and the fourth user, will
be sent to the first server as the end of the list
has been reached.
Round robin DNS is usually used for balancing the
load of geographically distributed web servers along
with other forms of load balancing and clustering.
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24x7 Monitoring
All DNS servers and services are monitored by us 24
x 7. Our centralized notification system ensures
that any issues are immediately brought to the
notice of the people incharge and our processes
ensure that the downtime of any service and server
is reduced to the minimal possible extent. As such,
due to our DNS architecture and design, it would
take multiple simultaneous failures for the service
to deteriorate or stop functioning.