MX Backup

[Simps]

Hi,

I'd like too setup a distant MX backup so that if the main server is unreachable mail gets queued on the backup server until it comes back up. Any suggestions?

A VPS host I had provides a backup MX for all domains hosted, all that was needed was to add an entry in the DNS zone. Any chance of such a service with Defender ? That would be just great ;c)

Regards,
Simp's

[TomK]

Hi,

I'd like too setup a distant MX backup so that if the main server is unreachable mail gets queued on the backup server until it comes back up. Any suggestions?

A VPS host I had provides a backup MX for all domains hosted, all that was needed was to add an entry in the DNS zone. Any chance of such a service with Defender ? That would be just great ;c)

Regards,
Simp's

We are not providing publicly backup MX services yet, sorry.

If you are an existing customer, please email support and I'll see what we can do as a one-off for you.

Thanks.

[charles]

Unless your server is down for over 4 days, any properly configured mail server will queue it and keep retrying anyway, so backup MX servers are really not needed anyway.

charles

[Simps]

If you are an existing customer, please email support and I'll see what we can do as a one-off for you.
Thank you Tom

Unless your server is down for over 4 days, any properly configured mail server will queue it and keep retrying anyway, so backup MX servers are really not needed anyway.
That's true ;c) thanks Charles for pointing it out.
Also, if the mail server is down, the name server pointing to the backup mx is probably down too as it's on the same machine? Redundant DNS is also needed?

[charles]

Also, if the mail server is down, the name server pointing to the backup mx is probably down too as it's on the same machine? Redundant DNS is also needed?

Yes, although DNS queries are cached so it may continue to work for many people for as long as your TTL without any redundant dns.

But again, given the VPS setup of everything hosted on the same box, so are all yoru other services so DNs being down isn't really a big deal if they can't use mail/web/whatever anyway.

Cpanel supports DNS clustering which would give you redundancy (assuming you had two VPS hosted on different physical servers). Not sure what it offers in terms of redundancy for other services though.

charles