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Affiliate marking mistakes you dont want to make (Part 3)

13 Aug, 2008 JohnnyB

This next post in the series of Affiliate Marketing Mistakes you don’t want to make is going to be about name servers and dedicated hosting.

As some of you may know, I have three dedicated servers at my favorite web hosting company but this post really isn’t about that.

When you get large enough in the affiliate realm to need a dedicated server, most dedicated server companies encourage you to host your own private name servers. Sounds professional and cool right?

For anyone who doesn’t know, a name server is a server which basically points the domains to IP addresses on your server. In other words it makes your domain access the files on your server.

So what’s so bad about having your own name servers?

In 99% of cases, having your own name servers is the best solution because you can ensure your websites are up more often. You control every aspect of your websites uptime essentially.

However, as an affiliate having your own private name servers is a bad thing. The main reason that this is a bad thing is because there are ways to look up every domain on a private name server.

Quick example:

Let’s say you have grown enough to need two small dedicated servers. Let’s say that you have set up private name servers. The sad part about this is that no matter what, people with a little know how can find every single site you own.

Clearly a bad thing for affiliate marketers.

The solution:
The main reason I like LiquidWeb so much is that they allow you to use their private name servers.

The reason this is so good is that while people will still be able to look up all the sites on their name servers they’ll have to go through tens of thousands of domains. It’s a lot less likely for someone to be able to find exactly which site is yours in this way.

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