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DNS hosting options?

MannDude

MannDude

Just a dude
vpsBoard Founder
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Curious what everyone here is using for DNS hosting on an active site. Currently I am using Rage4, which I am quite happy with but it's now costing me $14+/mo, and while that's not a drain on the finances, it does seem to be sort of high for just DNS hosting. With that said, I'm interested in learning what my options are. How is Amazon's DNS service?

Only real requirement is failover support.
 
drmike

drmike

100% Tier-1 Gogent
I should note, with DNSMADEEASY you buy an annual right sized plan.

$59.95 probably the plan you need.

10 million DNS lookups a month...

Then you add to that:

DNS Failover / System Monitoring Service $4.95 per A record per year

Definitely less costly I'd think.

Rage: $14 x 12 = $168 a year

DNSMade: $59.95 + 4.95 = $64.90 a year

Even if you need additional A records for failover looking at half the price...
 
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Taronyu

Taronyu

New Member
I'm using Cloudflare for all my domains, I like their api and their interface. Also it is free. Never had any trouble. :)
 
Aldryic C'boas

Aldryic C'boas

The Pony
I just run my own - been trying to move everything I do away from third party hosting if I can manage it.  pDNS with slaved SQL running on various VMs spread around the globe, reporting to a central master in Vegas.
 
zed

zed

Member
Hidden master at home.


ns1 points to 3 vps (ramnode/prometeus/iniz) currently (slave to hidden master).


ns2-ns5 are HE.net, slave from the three ns1 locations (slave to ns1 addresses).


And i'm a fan of bind9.
 
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DomainBop

DomainBop

Dormant VPSB Pathogen
Aldryic C said:
 pDNS with slaved SQL running on various VMs spread around the globe, reporting to a central master in Vegas.
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That's basically my setup: pDNS master in Rotterdam on a Xen VPS, a mix of slaves (pDNS VM's and ClouDNS Premium) around the globe.
 
texteditor

texteditor

Premium Buffalo-based Hosting
zed said:
Hidden master at home.

ns1 points to 3 vps (ramnode/prometeus/iniz) currently (slave to hidden master).

ns2-ns5 are HE.net, slave from the three ns1 locations (slave to ns1 addresses).

And i'm a fan of bind9.
Click to expand...
I like this strategy
 
Kris

Kris

New Member
DNSMadeEasy

 

$29.95 / year

Included:

10 Domains *

400 Records *

5 Million Queries per Month *

Vanity DNS Included

 

Anycast, stable and constantly the fastest from SolveDNS reports. CloudNS for less important domains. Speed isn't brilliant, but they handled DDoS attacks well months back and have 2 Voxility DCs in the mix. 
 
S

SGC-Hosting

New Member
Verified Provider
cPanel DNS Only servers (bind) -- we tried PowerDNS, but we ended up spending more time fixing issues with it than anything else.  We have virtual servers scattered across the country and with all different providers for redundancy.
 
Dylan

Dylan

Active Member
DNS Made Easy is probably the best managed DNS service out there.

If you really want to stick with Rage4, which I wouldn't, because even though they have some nice features they're REALLY slow (see http://www.solvedns.com/nameserver/ns1.r4ns.com and http://www.solvedns.com/dns-comparison/, 96.84ms average response for Rage4 vs. under 5ms for DNS Made Easy, 23ms for CloudFlare, etc.); you can get a free unlimited account through some partner VPS providers, like Prometeus (I think it's on Biz VPSes and iwStack with them), so you could probably save some money that way.
 
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