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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 unsane1 »

socialtistics wrote: post #8
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

We use everydns.com here as well. It is free, but they do ask for donations. If you donate I think it is at least $15 they will remove the restrictions on the number of domains you have. They have an easy to use web interface and are extremely reliable. Overall we couldn't be happier with them.

I use everydns as well, and donated, but never got credit for it. Though I'm happy I donated and still like the service.

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

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Post by jacquesm »

markup wrote: post #6
jacquesm wrote: post #3

I fail to see the connection between moving your friends' stuff and the DNS hosting. Hosting DNS costs next to nothing, it is hardly any bandwidth, and any old server will do. A $9 / month shared host would do the job. As for hosted DNS, almost every big registrar offers this service, it is fine as long as your requirements are simple. Enom, godaddy, moniker, netsol they all do this, with some of them it is free if t…

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…

Another way of looking at this is that you need many more customers. The overhead of doing all this for a handful of customers is significant, it only starts to pay off at certain economies of scale.

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

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Post by markup »

jacquesm wrote: post #25
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…

Another way of looking at this is that you need many more customers. The overhead of doing all this for a handful of customers is significant, it only starts to pay off at certain economies of scale.

I'm just a webdeveloper hosting some of the people/companies website I work for. Since from time to time I have to get my hands dirty with their projects again, I prefer to do so in an environment I know because I set it up personally. If I had to let them decide, most of them would go for crappy inexpensive hosting providers and additionally I would have to deal with a lot of passwords when I get to deal with their stuff again.

The money I live with comes from me coding stuff, not from the hosting. Since I am trying to get a personal project up and running I am trying to cut all the expenses (time/money) I can possibily cut or reduce; that's all.

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

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Post by bmatheny »

If you can afford it, UltraDns (Neustar) is the best. This is the service that Amazon uses, as well as a number of other very large sites. They have a 100% uptime SLA and a latency one as well. We haven't had an outage with them in almost two years. They also have an API which is nice. Oh, and they can do geo-distribution of requests, as well as a variety of other more advanced functions.

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

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Post by moomerman »

We've been using dnsmadeeasy for over a year now and have had great service from them. On features vs cost they win hands down. Had a quote from UltraDNS once and it was more than the total cost of our entire hosting infrastructure combined!

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

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Post by carl_ »

brk wrote: post #2

Enom is reliable and they have APIs, which would likely have some value in your situation. Not sure if you can edit zone files directly though. I run my own nameservers in addition to using enom for registration and some basic domains. I never really considered the cost of maintaining a DNS server to be all that significant.

Enom have had several large scale outages in recent memory.

We've got nearly 3000 domains under our enom reseller account, I wouldn't touch any our domains on their nameservers.

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