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Are you genuinely unaware they charge for DNS requests, healtchecks, etc? If you are using it to "just" host a dumb domain record, you can get that for free at

Are you genuinely unaware they charge for DNS requests, healtchecks, etc? If you are using it to "just" host a dumb domain record, you can get that for free at your registrar or with Cloudflare. This whole "Route53 is cheap" mantra makes no sense unless you are doing something so simple you get it free with 2934902342390 other services.

merb 9y ago
it is cheap. because human time is always worth more than paying for routes, requests and healthchecks (ps. you won't get healthchecks that easily with your own setup, especially not health checks that will remove/add servers from your dns.)
- AFNobody 9y ago
  > it is cheap. because human time is always worth more than paying for routes, requests and healthchecks (ps. you won't get healthchecks that easily with your own setup, especially not health checks that will remove/add servers from your dns.) Do you genuinely not understand I'm talking about a production setup that already exists? Like, if you think health checks are non-trivial you probably shouldn't be running your own DNS.
  - zrail 9y ago
    You clearly have needs that don’t match with the majority. That’s fine! I see nothing wrong with that. Arguing that Route53’s value proposition doesn’t fit your needs and therefore doesn’t fit anyone’s is disingenuous.
    - AFNobody 9y ago
      I'm specifically stating the idea it is cheaper was a misconception. I didn't say everyone should quit Route53.
Johnny555 9y ago
Are you genuinely unaware of how little they charge for requests? Our last bill showed around 100 million queries last month, so that cost around $40. We've got a dozen healthchecks, so that's another $6. $0.50 each is essentially free compared to the time it'd cost us to set up the equivalent healthcheck service with bind. 150 domains costs another $25 So our entire bill for 150 domains and a around 3M DNS queries/day is around $75/month.
- AFNobody 9y ago
  So you use AWS for their hosting and want to stay in their "world", fine. I don't use AWS for hosting either and my equivalent of 12 health checks ends up being $33 which gets over the $100 figure I mentioned earlier. If it genuinely takes you an hour a month to maintain your own setup, I guess your logic makes sense but for me it doesn't. You've also basically admitted its alot less than 1k domains. If I hosted with AWS, it would massively inflate my hosting costs as well. Lol.

merb 9y ago

it is cheap. because human time is always worth more than paying for routes, requests and healthchecks (ps. you won't get healthchecks that easily with your own setup, especially not health checks that will remove/add servers from your dns.)

AFNobody 9y ago
> it is cheap. because human time is always worth more than paying for routes, requests and healthchecks (ps. you won't get healthchecks that easily with your own setup, especially not health checks that will remove/add servers from your dns.) Do you genuinely not understand I'm talking about a production setup that already exists? Like, if you think health checks are non-trivial you probably shouldn't be running your own DNS.
- zrail 9y ago
  You clearly have needs that don’t match with the majority. That’s fine! I see nothing wrong with that. Arguing that Route53’s value proposition doesn’t fit your needs and therefore doesn’t fit anyone’s is disingenuous.
  - AFNobody 9y ago
    I'm specifically stating the idea it is cheaper was a misconception. I didn't say everyone should quit Route53.

Johnny555 9y ago

Are you genuinely unaware of how little they charge for requests? Our last bill showed around 100 million queries last month, so that cost around $40. We've got a dozen healthchecks, so that's another $6. $0.50 each is essentially free compared to the time it'd cost us to set up the equivalent healthcheck service with bind. 150 domains costs another $25 So our entire bill for 150 domains and a around 3M DNS queries/day is around $75/month.

AFNobody 9y ago
So you use AWS for their hosting and want to stay in their "world", fine. I don't use AWS for hosting either and my equivalent of 12 health checks ends up being $33 which gets over the $100 figure I mentioned earlier. If it genuinely takes you an hour a month to maintain your own setup, I guess your logic makes sense but for me it doesn't. You've also basically admitted its alot less than 1k domains. If I hosted with AWS, it would massively inflate my hosting costs as well. Lol.