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Old 23-07-2014, 14:42   #12
General Maximus
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Re: The internet is so slow, is it the football?

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq View Post
Not exactly. VM's DNS servers aren't a single point of failure, they're made of multiple redundant systems with active and passive backups. Including a minimum of two DNS servers being assigned by DHCP which gives, by definition, at least two different points of failure
I understand that, I meant that by restricting yourself to a single providers dns services that you only asking for trouble, especially when they are known to be penny pinchers. VM might assign multiple servers for redundancy and implement other redundancy solutions but they still manage to suffer from major outages, far more than you would expect.
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