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Why hosting companies need advanced DNS

Submitted by John Kane on Aug 02, 2010

Hosting companies face many challenges today, from differentiating their services in a crowded market with decreasing margins, to an increasing pressure to defend against growing sets of attacks against their infrastructure. As more and more services drift into the cloud, up-time is becoming one of the most critical factors for customers choosing a web host.

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VIDEO: Web Server 911: Why You need Monitoring and IP Failover

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VIDEO: Afilias at ad:tech NY: Do you have a back up of your DNS?

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Read David Spark's ad:tech NY blog post about Afilias Managed DNS

Afilias' Matt Pounsett Elected Director-at-Large for DNS - OARC

Dublin, Ireland - 29 October 2009 - Afilias, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services, today announced that Matt Pounsett, a lead member of the Afilias Content Propagation and Resolution Services team, has been selected as a board member of the DNS Operations, Analysis, and Research Center (OARC).

Afilias Managed DNS Services Adds SiteCertain to Keep Watch on your Web Site

New service provides continuous monitoring and emergency response for your Web site
DUBLIN, IRELAND – 15 September 2009- Today Afilias, a leading provider of Internet infrastructure services, announced the availability of SiteCertain, a new add-on feature to its Managed DNS Services. SiteCertain enables Afilias Managed DNS customers to add web server monitoring, content monitoring and IP address fail-over to their Managed DNS account, to ensure the reliability and uptime of their Web sites.

Emergency Response for your Web site

Afilias Enhances Managed DNS with New Security, Management and Reporting Features

Service Enhancements Strengthen Account Security and Transparency

DUBLIN, IRELAND - 11 June 2009 - Today Afilias, a leading provider of Internet infrastructure services, announced key feature updates to its Managed DNS Services that will enhance user account security, portfolio management, and traffic reporting.

“Afilias’ Managed DNS Services allow corporations to have world-class DNS service from a proven provider to manage traffic to their domain names with the peace of mind of 100 percent uptime, guaranteed,” said John Kane, Vice President of Corpor

Peace of mind in knowing your DNS is always up.

Are you concerned about DNS? You should be. Without 100% reliable DNS, it does not matter how scalable or redundant your system is, because your customers may never get to your Web site.