To add a PTR record in the GoDaddy DNS Manager, you need to do the following: In the Zone Field Editor go down to the TXT(text) Zone Click Add SPF Record A window will open with 4 tabs (Inbound, Outbound, The well hidden ‘PTR’ and Outsourced) Go to the PTR tab Check Include PTR and … Read more
You can eliminate this single point of failure by using two DNS providers. It might also be feasible to run your own DNS server on one of your servers. GoDaddy allows you to do zone transfers from their servers (IIRC premium DNS is required for this). Get a second DNS provider which allows you to … Read more
Short answer – If you don’t know reasons yourself, you probably don’t need to switch – just stick with whatever you use. Route53 may be more reliable, may be faster, have some features that help integrate it with other AWS services, but you don’t need any of it. If you care about the difference between … Read more
I ran into the same problem with a site that I had hosted on a HostNine shared hosting package. They too give you ssh access, but they unfortunately don’t have git installed and don’t even give you access to run gcc, making it rather difficult to download and install git for your user. The only … Read more
To make things nice and clear, as some of the GoDaddy help articles are dead wrong: You just need to paste the two records from the server settings into your Route 53 control panel as a new record. The possible deception here is the the GD email panel will tell you you’re wrong, but not … Read more
You can’t. ELB provides one — or more — IP addresses, hiding behind the CNAME you are using with www record, and these addresses are not static, so you can’t create an A record at the top (“apex”) of your domain and point to the addresses… along with that, a CNAME at the apex of … Read more
In short, you can’t make the @ record a CNAME without deleting all other resource records for @, and you can’t do that since some (like the NS records) are required for proper DNS functionality. This is one reason why providers such as Heroku tell you not to use naked domain names. You will need … Read more
GoDaddy […] I assume their servers are geographically distributed Don’t assume, verify with GoDaddy or verify it yourself. A quick traceroute to nsX.secureserver.com (a common DNS server name for GoDaddy) gives me a response from a datacenter here in Scandinavia where I live. So yes, it seems that GoDaddy has its nameservers spread out over … Read more