Interesting! Do you do have mailboxes set up at DNSMADEEASY in case LP's servers go down? If you have more than one LP domain do you have to purchase more services from them? What, exactly, kicks in once your LP mail server goes offline?
No. All three of thier servers just save it all and then resend to the LP's one with boxes when it is back up. (they will not resend after 5 days but that would never happen at LP)
You only purchased the Mail MX Backup, right? Did you buy their SMTP service or their "DNS Made Easy" program as well? How did you find them and why did you place you faith in that company?
I found them when i was looking for a backup MX service becasue i am starting a business with paypal as the payent and i do not want to miss an order. They were one of the adwords ads on google. I wasn't sure if they were a company out of some 16year olds basemnt (they got a kick oyt of my suspicion). I called they told me that it is nearly impossible to browse the web and not use on of thier DNS servers (their main gig). They are the base of many resellers. I also saw that they had 3 servers in at least two contries. Plus, at $10/year, i was willing to risk it.
I actually learned about backup MX when i wanted to start my own mailserver (before i found LP). I needed a backup.
10 maila.microsoft.com [131.107.3.124]
10 mailb.microsoft.com [131.107.3.123]
10 mailc.microsoft.com [131.107.3.126]
?. when i first found that tool, i did some things like AOL and saw similar priorities. I do not know what how that works. Maybe it is some type of load balancing
and redundancy setup.
Please speak slowly and use hand puppets!
Sorry. I often learn something then when i try to explain it in writing i refrence stuff i know which i haven't told the person learning. Plus i ten to go too far into detail at points and not enough in others. Please feel free to ask me anything (especially about DNS) by this post, the forums, PM, or
Justin@Winokur.us
