Hi,
Sorry i have posted the same message by a mistake in RaQ forum.

Im complete newbie to dedicated servers. but i have a reseller account with a good hosting company and its fine for me.

I want to buy a AMD server, but i have few questions,

1. Why does it ask to move my domain to ns1.rackshack.net nameservers? can't i use my own ns1.mydomain.com nameservers? do they provide me with static IP's so i can create host name for my domain?

2. lets say i have bought the AMD server. is there a program that i can use to connect to my server? like Telnet?

3. I wan't to buy a Cpanel3 external licence, they gona install it for me. after that, do i need anything special to start a web hosting company?

4. Do i need to install MySQL on AMD server?

5. is there anybody who can install all necessery programs for me to able to offer virtual hosting? less than $100?

6. can i use plesk and Cpanel3 at the same time?

Thank you in advance.

1. You don't have to use Rackshack's nameservers. ns1.theyallsuck.org is my primary DNS and granitecanyon serves the second and third DNS server for my zone.

2. You can use Telnet, but SSH is better. Telnet is inherently insecure - passwords are transmitted in plaintext. SSH does the same but encrypts (also see scp for secure copy instead of ftp)

3. I just administer from the command line, can't help you there!

4. Plesk comes with MySQL installed, but since I removed Plesk, I installed MySQL from the RedHat 7.1 RPM files.

In the long run - you won't regret it if you get a good Unix (preferably aimed at RedHat Linux) system administrator's book and learn how to be a system admin.

Like, for example ....................

Also can you explain why you have secondary and third DNS

What are you trying to accomplish by doing it



PS Winston

I checked out your two sites, very good. I can figure out what one is about which is flying/ It only cost $5,000 to learn to fly

The other site was a little different. The message board talks about military weapons while the home page is about some space travel game. huh

Buy the way ..... with all of that plus your servers when do ou ever have time for like ..... life

Well...the EBBS (alioth.net message board for discussing the game "Elite" and its successors) has been known to occasionally drift a little bit off topic from time to time

As for finding time for life...well, airplanes and computers ARE my life! :-) So no problems there

Oops, missed this bit of your msg...

I'm trying to achieve a bit of redundancy when it comes to DNS. Firstly, I think "it's the rules" that you have at least two DNS servers authoritative for your domain. Since you get two nameservers from GraniteCanyon, they may as well both be listed as authoratative. Using ns1.theyallsuck.org and granitecanyon.com gives a great level of redundancy since the servers are located on separate networks in separate countries. GraniteCanyon - the Public DNS - has had problems with DOS attacks in the past so it's nice to have a non-Granite Canyon DNS server.

Some information about the nameservers: ns1.theyallsuck.org belongs to a friend of mine and is based in the UK. ns*.granitecanyon.com belong to the Public DNS - see http://www.granitecanyon.com. ns1.theyallsuck.org is the primary for my zone, and the GC nameservers are slaves for the zone.

I've also thought of registering my own nameserver, but I've just never gotten around to it :-)

When I said Like for example i meant in regards to In the long run - you won't regret it if you get a good Unix (preferably aimed at RedHat Linux) system administrator's book and learn how to be a system admin.



thanks for the reply