Mark from 45n5 shares with his readers why it is important to manage your own DNS. This of course is not a solution for every webmaster. If one website is all you have, there is no other way but trust your web hosting provider to manage DNS for your domain name. However if you are launching a major product that stability of other websites may depend on, you should definitely look into managing DNS by yourself. Here is Mark’s entertaining yet extremely educational video:
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