Xavier wrote:
Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Michael Paoli (mp@rawbw.com):
balug-talk-balug.org@lists.balug.org is rather long, not-so-user-friendly and relatively redundant e-mail address for a BALUG talk list)
I'd maintain that the "lists.balug.org" part is good, and is what should have been done originally. That is, one should ideally use "role" CNAME records (or A records, where SMTP is involved) for each distinct major public function that a host will serve. This level of indirect addressing lets you reassign individual roles when necessary to different underlying hosts, smoothly transitioning them just by editing DNS records (and then waiting a while for caches to time out).
Further, with decent control over DNS, the timeouts can be decreased a day or two before the transition, which would nearly make future transitions smooth.
Somehow you don't understand what a "hosting provider" actually provides. They usually only offer simplified control over things like DNS.