If you’re reading this, you probably have your own website and you probably know that any changes you make to your DNS settings can take days to propagate throughout the internet – longer, if poorly configured DNS servers are involved.
The service the OpenDNS group provides is outstanding. Not only will using their DNS servers speed up your web browsing experience, but you can also create a (free) account and block any number of site categories (porn, gambling, phishing, adware, etc).
For those reasons alone, the switch is worth making. But, throw in their cache search & refresh capability and you’re left with a winning combo that everyone with a website can benefit from.
Cache? Refresh? Ok…. so?
So, let’s say for instance you’re hosted by XYZ Hosting… their servers are over sold, your website is often unavailable, and when it is available it’s dog slow. You want to leave, but are afraid of more down time and days wasted waiting for DNS to catch up.
If you’re using the OpenDNS servers, you can go to their website and perform a cache search – just tpe in your domain name and it will show you the IP addresses it has stored. If you’ve recently changed, you can click on the refresh button and OpenDNS will instantly update ALL of their DNS servers with the new information. You can instantly get back to your website – on your new host.
Things have gone great so far this week and I could not be happier! Thank you so much for taking the worry off my shoulders. 
The performance is better than anything I have seen before, things load so fast I am in awe. I should have done this from the start.
The assistance Uncorrupted has provided me has been priceless. My website would not be what it is without their service.
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