If I purchase the base Celery account, I get 5 IP's. I'm just curious what you guys are doing with those? Are most of you running your own DNS servers? Mail servers? (speaking of, what are server matrix'es DNS server addresses?). Just curious.

I had a Celery before and I use it to host my photo gallery and a download site. Works fine since it has been always very much under-utilized.

I guess as far as DNS is concerned, if you are not running a web hosting business than using SM's DNS servers would be a good idea since there is true redundancy and if you need to move servers, the switch over is pretty quick.

If you are doing a web hosting business than hosting your own DNS server may be an option so as to retain anonymity by not revealing where your servers are hosted at.

The SM DNS are ns1/ns2.servermatrix or ns1/ns2.theplanet.com .

Thanx for the reply.

I do run a web hosting business, have been for quite a few years (using Linux/Red Hat) but have recently aquired some clients that require software that is Win-only. The cost of getting up and online with Win Servers is daunting and thought we'd give Server Matrix a go. So it will be hosting, although only 10-20 clients, and I don't think that anonimity will be that important.

For ease of use/configuration, we'll probably just use the SM DNS servers. Just curious if that is a safe bet from what people here have been experiencing.

Thanx again!

I have no problems with the SM DNS Servers.

You know what, since you are already running your Linux server and I would supposed that you are running your own DNS on the machine. You could actually use that to point to your clients' sites on the Windows machine then that would standardize everything. Since it is going to be just 10 to 20 sites, it should not be too much of a hassle.

I've used the SM DNS for a while now and they do work pretty well.

By the way, if you plan to use the Celeron, opt for the 2.4 since price wise, it is cheaper with the Windows option compared to the 1.7.

My 5 are used for different things depending on the service. I'm just showing the last octet. You guys are going to have to work for the first 3.
Celery 2.4 with 2003
114-SMTP, HTTP, Merak Control, DNS, MySQL
115-POP3, FTP
116-IMAP
117-Reserved
118-Any test FTP, HTTP, or such is here.

SuperServer 2.8 HT with 2003
42-BFV Server 1, DNS
43-BFV2, Call of Duty, FTP
44-Reserved
45-Reserved
46-Reserved

I run a Celron 2400 with win2k3.

I find the extra IP's very handy for dynamic virtual hosting under Apache2 This is where instead of creating a virtual host in httpd.conf for every new user the server checks for a hard drive "directory" that matches the domain name. Example: www.freespirit.com, freespirit.com, and www.freespirit.myisp.com could all be set to check for web directory c:websiteusersfreespirit If the directory exists the page is loaded. If not they get a 404 error (this can reduce work especialy with wildcard DNS). Dynamic virtual hosting is useful becouse it is more efficient. You can have 10 or 1000 web clients and all that counts on resources is web hits/bandwidth. The above example would use 2 IP's (dynamic vhosts must have their own IPs).

For my site I use all 5 (two independent hosting sites on one server) and may order more IPs in the future.

Multiple IP's can also be handy if you want to run multiple same servers on the same machine (say 2 FTP servers). If on seperate IP's users on both servers can chose the same logins without conflicting with the other.

There are lots of good uses like others have posted here.