Redirect to offsite server during downtime

[kilburn]

IMHO the feature that would solve this problem is an "events system". This is, the ability to specify scripts to execute when something happens (domain added/domain deleted here).

This way, you could write a simple script that creates (or removes) the empty "failover" zone directly on the secondary server through ssh and let the panel run it when necessary. Thus, in a disaster scenario you would just need to command the backup nameserver to use the "failover" zones instead of acting as secondary for these domains.

The advantage of this "events system" is that it is a generic enough feature that would be useful for a lot of users, in many different situations.