How To Implement DNS Made Easy's
Automatic Fail Over & System Monitoring

The Key to Invincible Web Site and Email Hosting

If the web server is down in Iowa, the web site in DC will be up, and vice versa


What you need to click on is in Yellow Highlighted Text.

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User: Rick Shaddock (cicorp)     Current IP: 67.55.221.7
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Setting Up Web Site Fail Over

From the main menu, click on

Managed DNS
Manage your DNS for your own domain. Configure enterprise primary and secondary DNS for your domain

The settings that need changing are:

 
 DNS Failover:
On         Off
? System Monitor:
On         Off   (Except for CICorp.com,. which should be enough. Otherwise we get tons of emails if the server is down)
? Notification Email:
Maximum Number of Emails:
? System Description :
CICorp.com for example
? Port to check:
Protocol: HTTP (which will connect via TCP on the port you specify)
TCP (there is a 10 second timeout)
UDP
  IP #1 should be your original IP that you specified for your original A record.
IP #1 :
  IP #2 is only checked if IP #1 is not functional.
IP #2 :
(Note that it will have the same last digits of the IP)

Mail Fail Over Settings

From the Main Menu click on

Mail Services
Configuring POP accounts, mail account forwarding, mail server forwarding, and backup mail servers.

Mail Services Menu
Service Name Owned / Used
POP / IMAP / Webmail
POP, IMAP, Webmail, Mailing Lists and addons (MB, additional accounts).
0 / 0
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Mail Server Forwarding
Have all of your mail forwarded (redirected) to a different incoming port on your server.
0 / 0
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Mail Backup Service
Backup mail service for your domains.
10 / 3
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SMTP Service
Send outgoing mail through our SMTP servers.
0 / 0
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Click on Configure New Domain

Backup Mail
? Domain Help Assigned Mail Servers
Help 
cicall.com Backup Mail Servers I
 
Remove
cicorp.com Backup Mail Servers I
 
Remove
cti1.com Backup Mail Servers I
 
Remove

Backup Mail- Add Domain

 

Instructions:
Please enter the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) that you would like DNS Made Easy to backup your mail for.
If you enter a domain that you uses DNS Made Easy for the DNS for then you have the optio to automatically have your MX records added for you.
Note (important): Do not enter the name of the mail server. You should enter the name of the FQDN that the mail is delivered to. For instance if you want mail backed up for mail sent to username@example.com then you would enter the FQDN as "example.com".
? Domain Name(s):

Your assigned mail servers are as follows:
 
Example MX Level Mail Server
20 mx1.dnsmadeeasy.com
30 mx2.dnsmadeeasy.com
40 mx3.dnsmadeeasy.com
  You can view the results of your MX record modifications below.
   

Messages To Email and Pagers Will Read

From: "CICorp" <Admin@CICorp.com>
(DOWN - 67.55.221.10 - CICorp.com FS13/3)
Notification: System is DOWN
IP: 67.55.221.10
System Desc: CICorp.com FS13/3
Port: 80
Protocol: HTTP
2007-04-21 11:15

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