Good news for all Prepaid-Host domain customers: we've upgraded our nameservers and now offer an even more powerful, worldwide anycast infrastructure. What does this mean for you? Excellent availability, higher speeds, and a range of new features that take your hosting experience to the next level. In this blog post, we'll walk you through the benefits and features in detail.
Worldwide anycast infrastructure
Our new anycast network gives us a truly global presence. With DNS servers in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia, we provide reliable, high availability. The anycast principle automatically routes your requests to the geographically closest server, resulting in a faster and more stable connection.
How anycast works
In an anycast network, multiple servers share the same IP address but are distributed across different geographic regions. When a request is made to that IP address, the network uses complex algorithms to decide which of these servers is best suited to handle it. Usually, that's the geographically closest server, or the one with the lowest load.
Anycast in action: an example
Imagine one of your users is sitting in Paris and wants to access your website. Thanks to our anycast technology, their request is automatically routed to our server in Paris or, if that one is under heavy load, to another nearby server in Europe – whether in Frankfurt, London, or Milan, our network chooses the optimal path. With servers in top-tier locations such as Frankfurt, London, and even as far away as Sydney or Sao Paulo, we make sure your services are always fast and reliably reachable.
Web redirects
Want to redirect your domain to another website? No problem. Our new infrastructure supports simple, seamless web redirects. You can set this up in just a few clicks in your control panel.
Dynamic DNS
For anyone working with a dynamic IP address, we now offer a new feature: dynamic DNS. It lets you assign your dynamic IP address to any A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6) record. This is especially useful for home servers or other applications that need to stay constantly reachable.
Conclusion
Our new nameserver upgrade is a milestone in the evolution of our offering. We're confident these changes will noticeably improve your experience with Prepaid-Host. This upgrade is just one more step in our ongoing effort to give you the best possible service.
If you have further questions or concerns, our support team is available at any time. Just open a ticket, and we'll take care of it.
