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Well my DNS setup is now completely FUBAR. Shit shit shit. I'm thinking about going to the data center and just reinstalling the OS, since I don't know how to gracefully back out of the mess I've made.
Google is about to roll out a major update to its' search algorithm. You can get a peak at the new system here. Are you still number n?
I have really been splitting my time lately between a bunch of different projects and it is starting to make me a little crazy. Luckily today I finally was able to get the time and the motivation to dive back into the languishing server project. I am at least a month behind, so any claims of progress should probably be taken with a grain of salt, but I am happy to have the ball rolling again.
DNS is just not something I am eager to be really familiar with. But without DNS you can't really do anything on the web unless you want people to always use an IP address instead of a regular domain name. In any case, I ended up installing djbdns instead of the more common BIND. I like the idea of just "yum install"ing whatever the standard thing is (BIND) but djbdns is highly recommended from several sources I trust and more importantly, I was able to find much better setup docs, especially for the real small scale 2 DNS servers on one server configuration that I want to run.
I think I have it installed correctly. And I have my domain name servers registered (ns1.datamantic.com and ns2.datamantic.com). And I have the two additional IP addresses bound to my server for each of those DNS servers. Now it will take 24 hours or so for those nameservers to become active and then tomorrow I can try to setup a zone file to direct actual domain names to the new server.
Apache and MySQL and PHP are already set up. You can see the web server here. Once I get DNS resolving I will pretty much be back on familiar ground and can start moving domains over and building some new tools.