With the imminent change of servers (mainly for the gallery), I have migrated DNS servers.
Rather than use my current web-hosts DNS servers I have changed them to one I run myself.
Why? What will this achieve?
Well in short, my current web-hosts are very restrictive about the amount of CPU time I can use, whilst I am not interested in overloading their server I need to access the CPU for a one time bulk image manipulation session. Currently if I try to set a cron job to achieve this the CPU usage gets killed after about 10 seconds, this is whether I request 100% usage or 1% usage, because it's a constant session it gets killed off even though this is only ever going to be a one time thing.
Now to why migrating DNS servers can help, because I section off the gallery as "gallery.qsplace.co.uk" this creates a sub-domain that I can easily host on another server. As I intend on ever expanding my site with sub-domains it is easier to have my own DNS server automatically manage the DNS records as I create the new sub-domains, than for me to constantly create new records by hand.
In short I intend on having more content and subdomain on my own server than on my current web host's server, so it makes more sense to have the server that is hosting the most sites manage the DNS records. That and the fact I will be leaving this host, although because I still have just under a year paid with this host I don't know when I will migrate the entire site across.
