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Originally Posted by rowan
I personally think that DNS hosting at your registrar is a bad idea since it introduces a second point of failure. If your webhost goes down then it doesn't really matter whether the DNS works, since your sites won't... but what happens if your DNS host goes down?
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Not completely true, if your web and mail are on different unrelated servers, then a failure on your webhost (if they also do your dns) will cause a mail failure as well, not a good solution.
DNS is SUPPOSED to be at the top of the food chain when it comes to reliability, redundancy, and uptime. I personally would NEVER let my webhost OR mailhost do dns, and for good reason, if they get pissed for some stupid reason, your held hostage, but if your dns is independent, its a simple change to point elsewhere.