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Ask HN: any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup)

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Re: Ask HN: any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup)

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Post by markup »

ghshephard wrote: post #10
markup wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's about paid customers and not only friends. Paid customers expect a smooth service. At the moment I have multiple (virtual and physicall) servers around the world to both host and deal with nameservers. This solution is time and money consuming, so I am moving to a different approach. A single shared nameserver does not grant a 100% uptime and costs 2x the price of the business plan that company I linked earlier…

Since when was running named on a pair of servers (put one on linode and one on slicehost for redundancy) not work for all but the larger companies? And by the time you are that large, cost of name servers is so insignificant as to be round off error. I always used to think that I was missing something special about DNS - I mean, it can't be as simple as configuring named.conf for a master and slave, creating a zone…

> There are a lot of reasons to hand your DNS to a third party but cost of servers/internet isn't one of them.

Alright: it's USD480/year (plus administrating those two servers) vs. USD58/year but no, "cost of servers/internet isn't a reason". Ok, great.

Re: Ask HN: any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup)

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Post by jacquesm »

markup wrote: post #11
ghshephard wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since when was running named on a pair of servers (put one on linode and one on slicehost for redundancy) not work for all but the larger companies? And by the time you are that large, cost of name servers is so insignificant as to be round off error. I always used to think that I was missing something special about DNS - I mean, it can't be as simple as configuring named.conf for a master and slave, creating a zone…

> There are a lot of reasons to hand your DNS to a third party but cost of servers/internet isn't one of them. Alright: it's USD480/year (plus administrating those two servers) vs. USD58/year but no, "cost of servers/internet isn't a reason". Ok, great.

old box at your house on a static ip, old box at your friends house who uses a different provider.

Cost $0 if you have some old stuff lying around + the power they use.

Cheaper and just as good. The chance of both providers going down at the same time is pretty slim.

Heck, I'll host your secondary if you want it for free, it's not like I'll notice the bandwidth. Primary is different because you'll need access, secondary is just a bunch of lines in a conf file, it'll update when your primary does.

mail me at j@ww.com if you want to take me up on that offer.

Re: Ask HN: any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup)

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Post by bayareaguy »

I use FastMail to manage DNS for my family domains. In addition to email, they provide an easy to use DNS interface as part of their business/family package. They don't really promote this aspect of their service but it works well.

http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/faqparts/VirtualDomains.htm

Re: Ask HN: any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup)

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Post by jamesbritt »

davidw wrote: post #5

I use everydns. The guy who created it is, amongst other things, an occasional HN user: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davidu

I'm also a fan and user of everydns. I tried running my own DNS server, but the assorted annoyances got the better of me.
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