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Get the benefits of multiple, geographically dispersed nameservers and backup mail servers at a low cost. Services provided by the best DNS provider in the business,  and arranged by WMP for clients hosted on our servers.  If the connection to your mailsever is down your mail will be held on the backup server for 5 days.  After 5 days the mail is deleted starting from day 1 of your mailserver being down.

Redundant DNS and backup mail servers service:
US $145.00/year.
(Plus initial setup $75.00)

The DNS standard requires at least two nameservers per domain, though it recommends using more nameservers that are geographically distributed and on separate Class C IP ranges. When we assign your  account to our nameservers at WMP, Each domain has only a single nameserver although 2 are listed. The creates the problem of no redundancy for your domain and connections from other parts of the world can sometimes be slow.

Moreover, it's very risky to have a single mail server, as we have at WMP Hosting. With the deluge of spam and viruses, it's more likely than ever to lose mail as the result of server load or errors. Backup mail servers provide redundancy, as they will receive your mail whenever your WMP server or  Your Exchange Server is offline. Once your server is again able, the backup mail servers will deliver the mail to your mailbox.

Yes, a norrmal hosting setup gives you two private nameserver addresses here at WMP, ns1.wmpfl.com and ns2.wmpfl.com, but those are just to get around the requirement for two nameservers. Both those names are on a single WMP server, which means it is actually only one nameserver.

I buy services from  the best DNS provider in the business, and in turn offer those services to each of  my clients hosted at WMP. I have eliminated the complexity of using external DNS:

I will do all the set-up for you, so you don't need to know anything about DNS.

Additional nameservers provide enhanced performance and added redundancy. DNS lookups can occur to any of the nameservers, and will therefore usually occur on the fastest route. Resolution is quicker and more reliable.  This is an added feaure of having backup mail service.

You will get the benefit of five nameservers on different, multi-homed network backbones. They are distributed geographically and topologically. So, in addition to your WMP nameserver in Virgina, USA, you will have the benefit of two nameservers in Toronto, Canada, two in Texas, USA, and one in London, England.

You'll also get multiple backup mail servers (we specify two backup Mx in the DNS Zone, but each Mx entry maps to a bank of physical mail servers), to increase the reliability of your e-mail.

Three mail servers:

yourdomain.com      (WMP DNS Setting)
smtp.easydns.com  (backup)
smtp2.easydns.com (backup)

WMP must have access to your domain to make the necessary changes to point your domain to the correct nameservers.

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