I think I understand your question more than the other responses because I have the exact same questions…īasically stated, because I have purchased a Godaddy Virtual Dedicated Server, I know that I need a name server. JIAM, I suppose you got your issue resolved by now. Can somebody recommend a good resource to learn how IP, DNS, nameservers, etc work? Any book, paid website, video… anything ? While there’s a ton of info on the web, all is scattered and none seems to be too detailed enough for somebody starting to learn about this. What are the drawbacks of hosting multiple sites under the same IP? I control all sites under these IPs If I used DNS backup services for will that apply to and which I used for my VPS? and therefore will be applicable to other domains I host? Does this make sense? Or would I need a separate backup for each domain I host? Can I use one backup for multiple domains? Are DNS backup services valuable if I host my own nameservers? Any suggestions on good quality providers? Price not an issue. Can I still use those IP’s to actually host websites, or do I need additional IP’s to host the actual sites? Any value in keeping each IP dedicated to a nameserver? If I host my nameservers in my VPS, I will need a separate IP for each one (ns1, ns2…and so on). Even if this is possible, is it a good idea or would it be better to host it somewhere else? When I try to define those as the nameservers in Godaddy I get the error message Nameserver not registered. nameserver is used for the same domain in which it is named. Can I setup and as the nameserververs for ? i.e. So, I got a brand new domain to act as the host of the rest of the domains I’m setting up: In the VPS I have setup this one as the default domain for nameservers: In the past I’ve used individual accounts to host a couple of other websites and haven’t paid much attention to nameserver setup, just configured at my registrar whatever I was given from the hosting service. I just got a VPS plan for the first time where I want to host several new websites.

Ns1 and ns2