Network Planning

Mapping sites to IPs before you place an order

Decide which site lands on which address while the whole estate is still rows in a document, and finish that before the...

Naming conventions that keep a large estate manageable

Decide the scheme in week one and keep it in one file. It costs twenty minutes then. At fifty sites it costs a move per...

Deciding which sites share an account and which stay separate

Draw the boundary around commercial ownership, not around technical convenience. Sites you own outright can sit...

Planning nameservers for a multi domain estate

Pick one of three schemes for the whole estate before you delegate the first domain: every domain carries its own...

Registrar spread: how far to take it

Two. For nearly every estate the workable answer is two registrars, and not for symmetry: one carries the routine bulk...

Documenting your estate so you can hand it over

The test of an estate record is simple: could a competent stranger, holding only that document, keep every property...

Staging and test sites: where to put them

Put the non-public copy somewhere an accident cannot cost you anything: behind authentication, on infrastructure that...

When to split one estate into two

Split when two parts of the estate have acquired different owners, different fates, or a boundary somebody may ask you...