The Best Free DNS Hosting - EveryDNS!

Why Run Your Own DNS Server? EveryDNS is Free and it Rocks!

Are you a system administrator running DNS servers for your organization? If so, you're going to love today's tip. I used to host DNS for nearly 50 domains. Then one day while I was out of town, a glitch caused both of my nameservers to become unreachable. Suddenly, websites were unreachable and email was down for almost 50 domains. I was able to get back to town and fix the problem within 4-5 hours, but it was an unfortunate service outage for my clients. I remember walking out of the data center that day asking myself "what if I had been on vacation?"

EveryDNS to the rescue! This service is almost too good to be true, but I've been using them for over six months now and I love it. Over 155,000 hosting nearly a quarter million domains agree! And best of all, the service is FREE, although they ask you to donate to help defray costs (and if you have more than 20 domains they require it.)

To clarify, EveryDNS can host DNS for your Internet domain, but you still need to run Windows DNS if you are running a Windows Server network with Active Directory. (But you should be using a .local domain for that anyway. EveryDNS works with .com, .net, .org, .info, .us, etc...)

To use EveryDNS, just go to the EveryDNS website and set up an account. Add your domains and configure DNS (using the handy tutorials). Once everything is set ok, go to your domain registrars' website and edit your domain configuration. Change your name servers to ns1.everydns.net, ns2.everydns.net, ns3.everydns.net, and ns4.everydns.net. In short order, your DNS hosting is handled by EveryDNS servers in San Diego, San Jose, the Netherlands, and Washington D.C.!

That's one less thing to worry about while you're on the beach sipping that Pina Colada!

For more information, check out http://faq.everybox.com/