Being a webmaster for a domain, you may face a situation when you have to change your server/ hosting. And this change involves the name server change, and resulting in downtime due to DNS propagation. This DNS change may take place in around 24-48 hours, but with Google’s DNS it takes place in few hours. I recently had a server change for one of mine domain to a new VPS. My ISP was not loading the page even after 10 hours of change, while the site was active and functional in most parts of the world.
Than i decided to use the new Google DNS as one of author Gaurav suggested me with it, as the site was loading fine at his end since the DNS change. And seriously speaking that was really amazing, just after doing the changes i was able to view my domain. And their was a drastic improvement in the browsing speed also, the pages are also loading very fast.
I recommend everyone to give the new Public DNS from Google a try and experience the future of the coming web. The new DNS from Google are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, if you have problem implementing these do check our coming post setting up Google DNS on your machine.
It’s worth. Good initiative from Google.
This is really nice intitaive form Google.. recently i have updated Abt Google DNS at my blog.. http://www.techcats.net/google-comes-up-with-a-public-dns.html
It is true when we change to another server it take approximately 48 hours to update our new DNS? I’m sure we can request from Hosting Company people to make it easier for us.
Well i prefer changing the records at the domain registrar first and than move ahead further, it minimizes the downtime very effectively.
Very interesting gift from Google. Though I am not much sure how much effect DNS have on your site speed but I am sure DNS changes take quiet long time and Google DNS really help us to reduce the time.
the time taken to resolve a page is increased with this New DNS from Google.
like opendns it may speed up browing.opendns has been there was while but if u r google fan than choose google
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I do have some reservations about efficiency of Google DNS in India especilly if you are using good ISPs. I guess, Google servers are not located in India.
But i guess the most of indian sites are hosted on us servers, the data centers are mainly located in that part of the world. So the DNS updates are available from their. So this makes it extremely fast.
i was wondering if there are webmasters who manages several thousand websites at a time.’*”