Few basic questions

[layer0]

I'm pretty new to DA...having used cPanel for the past few years...

Here are my questions:

1) cPanel has a setup where you can have two servers dedicated for DNS. e.g. ns1 and ns2, then all servers sync DNS zones to the new nameservers, and customers just need to to use two nameservers. Can this be done with DA in a similar fashion? Please provide as many details as possible, link to a doc, etc. would be great.

2) How does the DA backup system work? cPanel has a pretty simple and easily restorable backup which just contains all of the user's configurations, databases, e-mails, web content, etc. Does DA have something like this? Does it work well?

3) I've seen a few companies offering DA skins, but I'm not sure which to choose. Does anybody have a personal preference of a skin that they like?

Thanks in advanced!

 

[hehachris]

1, http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=97

2, Reseller Level -> Manager user backups

http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=57

It works well...you can even do the server-to-server transfer with the user backups..

3, Walo's free one is the best i've seen:
http://directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11929

 

[layer0]

Thanks,


Is there a way to run a secondary server for failover DNS with a primary server running DA, even if the secondary server doesn't have DA installed? If not, is there some kind of DNS-only version of DA that can be used for this purpose?