Cory von Wallenstein's blog

First, a disclaimer... this posting refers to recursive DNS as provided by our free service DynDNS.com Internet Guide. If you are looking for authoritative DNS performance benchmarking and data, such as that provided by our Dynect Platform, there is a great article by one of our clients LearnHub.com on How to Compare Managed Authoritative DNS Providers (with Data!).

After the Public Internet Registry (PIR) began signing .org with DNSSEC in June 2009, news of the root signing becoming a reality wasn't far behind. Add this to all the ccTLDs already signing zones and the flood gates were opened. And Dyn Inc. is there riding the wave to a more secure DNS.

Disaster recovery is tricky business. On one hand, you’re never sufficiently prepared for any and all disasters that can bring down your IT infrastructure, and live in a constant state of contingency planning. On the other hand, for every dollar and for every hour you invest in preparing your organization for the worst, that’s one less dollar and one less hour you’re investing in everything else your organization needs to thrive.

For many system administrators and web site developers, DNS hosting sits at the back of the mind. As long as it works, they’re happy.

For us, DNS hosting is nowhere near the back of the mind. It’s right in front, all the time. But don’t take my word for it… here are some important improvements we’ve been working on that you can start working with today.

We recently launched DNSCog.com, a tool that starts to aggregate a number of tools that we have written over the years. We’re excited to have it out, which was the result of a software retreat high up in mountains of New Hampshire for several days away from the office.

The wonderful folks behind SYSTM, one of our favorite tech shows, recently put together an episode on how to access your home computer remotely using our free Dynamic DNS service at DynDNS.com.

Watch the pros show you how easy it is to get setup with your own server at home.

When we launched our virtual private server hosting platform a few weeks ago, we included a really nifty feature that I would like to share with you. It's called the Spring Console, and it enables you to get access to your virtual private server even when you cannot reach it over the network.

Watch the overview video below to learn why you would want to use the Spring Console: