The Apple AppStore offers thousands of free apps. Many developers offer in-app purchases for extra functions. The system isn’t perfect because if you make an in-app purchase on one device, it is not transferrable to another. This is what thieves many of us use as a justification for bypassing the in-app purchase technology altogether, and [...]

DynDNS no longer offers a free service. Most nerds and many of our clients over the years have used the great free (as well as pro) services of DynDNS. Many of our clients only need the single hostname service to a single location for access to webcams at home, for example.

We have seen phenomenal growth on the internet, and with it, billions of websites have been created, each with its own unique IP address through the IPv4 system. The trouble is that protocol is starting to run out of addresses. As web hosts adopt IPv6, this problem will be solved. Each website has an assigned [...]

Earlier this week I wrote an article referring to a recent Pingdom survey of DNS records. It was discovered that over 2/3 of all websites suffer from some DNS issues. Perhaps you might be wondering just what types of problems your website might have if your DNS records aren’t correct. One common problem that our [...]

According to a report released by Pingdom on September 9th, over 66% of all websites have potential DNS issues, and these issues can lead to your website and email being inaccessible by some or all of the Internet. Test results from their report: 31% passed with flying colors, all tests ok. 29% passed, but with [...]

On Tuesday, Nerds On Site announced our new geographically redundant DNS system, and made it a standard option for all our shared hosting clients. This is the third in a series of three articles on geographically redundant DNS, designed to answer the What, Where and Why of our new service. You may be wondering where [...]

On Tuesday, Nerds On Site announced our new geographically redundant DNS system, and made it a standard option for all our shared hosting clients. This is the second in a series of three articles on geographically redundant DNS, designed to answer the What, Where and Why of our new service. Why is geographically redundant DNS [...]

Yesterday, Nerds On Site launched our new geographically redundant DNS system, and made it a standard option for all our shared hosting clients. This is the first in a series of three articles on geographically redundant DNS, designed to answer the What, Where and Why of our new service. You may be wondering just what [...]

The Nerds On Site Hosting Team is proud to announce that we have launched our new geographically redundant DNS system, and are providing this new service absolutely free of charge to all of our hosting clients, both new and old. Our team is working hard to add this new service to every one of our [...]