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Ask YC: Who are you using for DNS?
For those of you who aren't running your own DNS server, who are you using? Free hosting (e.g, EveryDNS, ZoneEdit, EditDNS) or paid hosting (e.g, DNS Made Easy, No-IP, EasyDNS)?
- johnnyonetine 19y agoOpenDNS (http://www.opendns.com/ http://www.opendns.com/)
- subwindow 19y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=128119 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=128119
- dcancel 19y agoDNSMadeEasy for all my personal domains and Neustar for our work/production domains. Love DNSMadeEasy been using them for a while now, no problems beyond a confusing interface although Neustar's is much worse (interface).
- prakash 19y agoAre you looking for DDoS protection?
- cdr 19y agoA "FAYC" might be handy. This one in particular seems to come up every week.
- jasoncartwright 19y agoOpenDNS
- SwellJoe 19y agoI've never understood why one wouldn't run DNS for yourself...but I guess I have a different perspective, being a developer of systems management software (and BIND being one of the services that our products manage). So, I'll use this thread to ask a question that's bugged me for a while: Why do folks outsource such a simple and low-resource service?
- dshah 19y agoThey likely outsource because simple and low-resource is a matter of perspective. If you spend even 1 hour a year thinking about DNS, it's probably worth the price.
- SwellJoe 19y agoReasonable perspective. But I suspect you have to spend some time thinking about it anyway. Like, which provider to choose, whether their service is fast/reliable enough, whether you can make changes you need when you need them. I'm beginning to sound like a know-it-all asshole, so I should stop talking. But, I think it's probably a mistake to outsource DNS to a third party, if your entire business is on the web. Understanding DNS is pretty fundamental to troubleshooting and avoiding problems with network service. In fact, when people ask me to recommend books the O'Reilly DNS and BIND book is always at the top of the list. DNS is important enough that you should spend at least an hour a year thinking about it.
- jbyers 19y agoDNS is an easy service in isolation, but complex when your business demands it remains fast and reliable. This means you'll need the following, in no particular order: * servers in multiple data centers and close to your end customers * multiple backbone providers * some idea of what to do when your first DOS attack hits * a sysadmin who monitors all this stuff and gets paged when it fails You might say this is overkill for a new startup, but when we can get all this for $50/year or less -- or free from EveryDNS -- I can't imagine why we'd go it alone. I should note that we do run our own DNS servers (tinydns) at Wikispaces, but we also have four EasyDNS secondaries watching our back.
- chrisbroadfoot 19y agoSlicehost
- jbyers 19y agoFree: EveryDNS Paid: EasyDNS Looked at Neustar/UltraDNS, and while they were technically appealing, the pricing got out of hand for what we wanted.