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Apex A records

Author: Anurag | Posted: 30-06-2009 0

Today will explain what are “Apex a records”

These are simply the “A records” we have for defining address of web hosting server but incase when we have NO mx records, they work like Apex a record. In those cases all incoming mails are delivered directly to web hosting server which hosting the domain.

Concept is not of much importance but sometimes crazy things happens like e.g for a domain.com mx records are mail-server.isp.net while A record points to web hosting server 1.2.3.4

Now if mx record, i.e which is actually a hostname mail-server.sip.net doesn’t resolves becuase of some error at dns hosting of isp, mails are delivered at web hosting server on ip – 1.2.3.4 which makes things crazy, either mails will be rejected or may be delivered on un-expected location.

I found many server admin still depend on apex a record for email delivery which isn’t a good idea. Best possible way for email hosting setup via an inhouse server is to create an mx record for in house server.

It requires two steps:

create a hostname like – mail-server.your-domain.com and point it to ip of email hosting server.
create mx record for your-domain.com pointing to mail-server.your-domain.com

That’s all required for inhouse email hosting setup. Sounds simple….right?

And i am back!

Author: Anurag | Posted: 17-05-2009 3

Finally blogging after long time. Actually i had last exam AIEEE on 26th April and i am free (from studies) after that but didn’t got much time to blog in past 20days.

Things are going fine for now learning lots and lots of stuff & enjoying having internship with a web hosting company too

Good is things are going as they should be!

Bad is my IIT dream is almost broken, ok i think that’s how we get taste of life, we get something and loose some other thing. No further comment on this!

Changing topic!

And since talking about me in this blog post let me show you some of pics of outside garden i had taken recently if you haven’t checked those till now on gallery.

I like taking pics of these flowers, and most of them are from in-home garden

and its so fun now when i have a fast broadband connection

New story starts here!

Though getting that quickly from BSNL was itself a fight!!! and here in Haryana they even can’t generate login credentials for us and depend on Bangalore exchange for that. With TOO much efforts, i was able to get broadband working within 48hrs of my application time. Most interesting was LAST part, when i need to get jumper on line to get dsl stuff working, and i had to deal with a crazy lineman who initially made whole phone line dead and i had to have 4 times visit to exchange that afternoon when temp in Rohtak was 44 degree C. Here’s few pics of that movement:

after getting jumper crazy thing happened – dsl link coming but that most stupid error in windows error 678!!! and after struggling for 20mins, BSNL helpline told me its a serve downtime!

Just reminding me that i am using a BSNL product again! lol

But yea after 1hr, everything started working with a bit slow speed this time – only 1.5Mbps but after hiting head on dialup for so long i still like Mbps speeds.

And as it should be Clisearch development going on at backend, trying to get some cool stuff in it, but yeah it made me realise that its very easy to criticize other software/services but when its in your own hands you realise things are not really that easy to build up and get working, a nice experience

And other update from here is that i am purchasing a new Laptop after using my old assembled desktop for 8years!

So for now waiting for laptop from dell….and rest all is OK!

Poem time!!!

I do remember a poem sent by a good friend, it was a motivating poem in Hindi “koshish karne walo ki kabhi haar nahi hoti” really like that.

Here’s a video of that

Will continue working on Clisearch Project, intern. as going and will hopefully learn 1 or 2 computer languages in these holidays. And will now keep readers updated on this all!

and also will come up with few tech posts very soon.

Cheers!

Cheap yet reliable web host

Author: Anurag | Posted: 09-02-2009 7

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I found a few great web hosts, which are really cheap yet reliable for Professional Website Hosting. So thought to put a review about them here.

Today will discuss – Bluelemonhost

Its one of the cheapest host i had seen on web, that too with cPanel and 99.9% uptime!

I had used it personally & its really good.

Good things about it:

Too cheap …basic plan costs $11/yr only.
cPanel based panel….thus really cool to manage things.
Great link speeds….as per my tests – uplink – 3.5MBps and downlink – 2.8MBps (though appears to be little slow…but believe me its far better then expensive Dreamhost!)
Good support….always responses with “done/solved/ok”
Daily free backups with free restoration (nice!)
No irritating limits on number of sub domains, sql databases & users, ftp users and even mailing lists.

Bad things about it:

No ssh shell access (but i do accept its useless to give that in plan like $11 an year due to security reasons).
No wget allowed (even via cron jobs) though good way out is just using ftp commands in shell but again that’s not for home users.
Irritating limit- in $11 plan you can host only 1 addon domain & parked domain.
No great cPanels addons like website builder or templates. (though you won’t need those ever!)

I recommend it using just for personal blogs and small professional sites because of its cost, features it just provides really solid hosting for personal blogs but because of limitations i won’t recommend it for an advanced user.

thumbs-up

Cheers!

Google’s SRV records

Author: Anurag | Posted: 02-02-2009 2

After recieving lots of emails regarding SRV records issue in Google Apps, i finally tried that in myeslf……unfortunately thats true that Google has missing info. about SRV records.

As per refering to official Google’s help here .

It has missing info. about the location servers.

Here are those missing SRV records…

_xmpp-client._tcp.YOURDOMAIN.TLD. IN SRV 5 0 5222 talk.l.google.com.

_xmpp-client._tcp.YOURDOMAIN.TLD. IN SRV 20 0 5222 talk1.l.google.com.

_xmpp-client._tcp.YOURDOMAIN.TLD. IN SRV 20 0 5222 talk2.l.google.com.

_xmpp-client._tcp.YOURDOMAIN.TLD. IN SRV 20 0 5222 talk3.l.google.com.

_xmpp-client._tcp.YOURDOMAIN.TLD. IN SRV 20 0 5222 talk4.l.google.com.

so finally saying…..just forget everything and have these SRV records to get your domain’s Gtalk working from external IM services…

I created a public G.docs spreadsheet here for easy viewing.

Feel free to post for any issues…