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by avolkov 5821 days ago
A guy fails at configuring BIND9. News at 11.

I've been wondering if I should get myself a website on a Rackspace cloud, but I'm not sure if I can keep the same static IP if I delete/copy server instances.

I currently have a physical box at home with dynDNS, but it's pretty old (p3 800MHZ, 196MB ram), which is quite a bit slow for my git repositories that I started using for everything, so I'm slowly configuring XEN guest, and for that matter I want to get a proper LDAP & Kerberos setup for authentication. I currently have GIT+SSH/TRACK/APACHE/ and I want to get GIT/GITOSIS/REDMINE/NGINX/DJANGO/whole bunch of other stuff/ with everything authenticating against separate LDAP server.

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A guy fails at configuring BIND9. News at 11.

BIND sucks. But seriously I am stil a little concerned about whether Power DNS is secure/per formant. I'm hoping to have some solid data on that soon.

Mostly this is an attempt to prove it is getting easier to do this; with VPS's getting cheaper and more abundant I seriously expect to see "all in one" VM's springing up with more and more people "self hosting". Could even be a viable startup there...

I've been wondering if I should get myself a website on a Rackspace cloud, but I'm not sure if I can keep the same static IP if I delete/copy server instances.

I'm not sure you can on Rackspace - I also would be interested to hear for certain. Same for any other VPS providers. I'm looking for US ones to provide failover/US hosting.

concerned about whether Power DNS is secure/per formant

djbdns is what you're looking for.