Hi guys, I hope you can help as my web hosts are not only being entirely unhelpful but their support are refusing to help customers with this particular issue due to a 'management stance'
I have a VPS that I used to use for development and an active domain, as such I use a particular domain as my hostname for the server setup with vanity nameservers (ns1 and ns2 of that domain) that my active domain uses. On the vps there are only two accounts, one for the hostname and nameservers and the active business domain.
There's no need for me to use the VPS host domain any more and with the hosts now stating they will be charging $17 a month extra for having more than a single account it seems prudent to just set the server hostname to my active business domain. I know how to change the hostname using the admin panel, however I do not know how I can simply remove the current host domain and change the server to use the one remaining account. There are multipl IP addresses, the shared IP being the one I want to remove with the active domain already being on it's own and vnet 0:1 - the vps is setup for venet0:0.
I am also concerned regarding the DNS, as I won't be using the domain name that has the nameserver DNS linked to it I am worried that the active business domain will suffer downtime - does the domain have to be hosted or as it's been setup for a number of years with my registrar will it just continue? My thoughts are that I really ought to add nameserver tags to the active domain and just use that. What would you do?
Obviously I just want to keep my main domain up and running with no DNS downtime while i make the changes and as long as that one part it OK I don't mind changing nameservers or similar to just set the server up as using the one solo account. I also have access to a free DNS service at Cloudns that if i can figure out I believe allows me to host a domain as a nameserver.
Regards
Leigh
I have a VPS that I used to use for development and an active domain, as such I use a particular domain as my hostname for the server setup with vanity nameservers (ns1 and ns2 of that domain) that my active domain uses. On the vps there are only two accounts, one for the hostname and nameservers and the active business domain.
There's no need for me to use the VPS host domain any more and with the hosts now stating they will be charging $17 a month extra for having more than a single account it seems prudent to just set the server hostname to my active business domain. I know how to change the hostname using the admin panel, however I do not know how I can simply remove the current host domain and change the server to use the one remaining account. There are multipl IP addresses, the shared IP being the one I want to remove with the active domain already being on it's own and vnet 0:1 - the vps is setup for venet0:0.
I am also concerned regarding the DNS, as I won't be using the domain name that has the nameserver DNS linked to it I am worried that the active business domain will suffer downtime - does the domain have to be hosted or as it's been setup for a number of years with my registrar will it just continue? My thoughts are that I really ought to add nameserver tags to the active domain and just use that. What would you do?
Obviously I just want to keep my main domain up and running with no DNS downtime while i make the changes and as long as that one part it OK I don't mind changing nameservers or similar to just set the server up as using the one solo account. I also have access to a free DNS service at Cloudns that if i can figure out I believe allows me to host a domain as a nameserver.
Regards
Leigh
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