hosting DNS in separate location from website...

We currently host our website and our DNS with the same company at a
location here in Canada. We are currently involved in a website SEO project
and out of that is coming the fact that if we really want to see search
engine ranking gains for US based searches we really need to move our
website to a host that has a US IP address.

My question is, can we leave our DNS being hosted with the same company here
in Canada and simply move the hosting of our website to a US location (we
are looking at GoDaddy in the US)?

Our dns name truenorthloghomes.com resolves to a Canadian based IP
address... Even if we move our web site south of the biorder, our dns name
will still resolve to a CAD IP address correct? Is there anything that can
be done so that the IP address will resolve to the IP from GoDaddy?? OR
should we just simply be moving our entire DNS and hosting to GoDaddy to
keep it all under one roof? We have had a long standing relationship with
this company and have other products with them - which is why it woul dbe
simpler if we could keep our DNS stuff with them...

Please Help!
Thanks, Brad

Hi Brad,

> My question is, can we leave our DNS being hosted with the same company here
> in Canada and simply move the hosting of our website to a US location (we
> are looking at GoDaddy in the US)?

Yes. You can.

As long as you can modify the Host (A) records used to point the name to
the web server you're good to go.

For example, you might have:

domain.com. IN A 1.2.3.4
www.domain.com. IN A 1.2.3.4

Where 1.2.3.4 would be replaced with the new IP address for the new web
server.

The DNS server providing that answer could still be located in Canada
(on an appropriate IP), but clients won't be using that Canadian IP to
access the web server.

> Our dns name truenorthloghomes.com resolves to a Canadian based IP
> address... Even if we move our web site south of the biorder, our dns name
> will still resolve to a CAD IP address correct?

Your DNS server IP might, but your web server IP (www for example) would
resolve to something in the US.

HTH

Chris

Thanks for the info Chris - that is exactly what I wanted to hear!!!

Brad
"Chris Dent" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hi Brad,
>
>> My question is, can we leave our DNS being hosted with the same company
>> here in Canada and simply move the hosting of our website to a US
>> location (we are looking at GoDaddy in the US)?
>
> Yes. You can.
>
> As long as you can modify the Host (A) records used to point the name to
> the web server you're good to go.
>
> For example, you might have:
>
> domain.com. IN A 1.2.3.4
> www.domain.com. IN A 1.2.3.4
>
> Where 1.2.3.4 would be replaced with the new IP address for the new web
> server.
>
> The DNS server providing that answer could still be located in Canada (on
> an appropriate IP), but clients won't be using that Canadian IP to access
> the web server.
>
>> Our dns name truenorthloghomes.com resolves to a Canadian based IP
>> address... Even if we move our web site south of the biorder, our dns
>> name will still resolve to a CAD IP address correct?
>
> Your DNS server IP might, but your web server IP (www for example) would
> resolve to something in the US.
>
> HTH
>
> Chris