Web-Hosting

Few days back I visited Official Google Apps forum (one of my favorite places) and answered many questions. It was quite after some time i was there and found few cases/questions/problems as really interesting. Here’s one of the questions asked there by a admin named aol985 about SPF records.

His question:

As described in http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=33786 , I set SPF record for mashfilm.ru domain to “v=spf1 include:aspmx.googlemail.com ~all”. But aspmx.googlemail.com currently does not resolves. Is it correct?

Most of people face issue in using Google sites is redirection……i,e www.domain.com works fine (becoz of presence of cname record) BUT domain.com fails here…… SO lets see the possible ways out to the issue:

1. use redirection offered by Registrar (eNom, Godaddy, name.com etc…)
2. use redirection offered by third party dns hosts. (only redirection and NOT dns hosting)

In this post, i will consider #2 as for #1 instructions are already available (Google for them!) and also i guess most of you people are reading this post because you were unable to do the #1! since we are using free services, they are perfect for blogger, small biz sites (having low traffic…i.e less then 10,000 visitors per day) We can use any of following host for setting redirection:

So after answering lots of queries regarding Web Hosting setup, i thought to post about it here. This is regarding use of “External DNS Host…” Most of newbies get confused because of type of setup they want.

Type of DNS setups of site:

1. Web host and dns host both are same…….i.e using web hosts name servers.
2. Using separate DNS host and Web Host…

Both setups have their own advantages and dis-advantages…..like