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I find 2 requirements for DNS (on top of the requisite uptime criteria): 1) It's not tied to any other services (so I can switch, say, webhosts without having
by bkrausz 16y ago
I find 2 requirements for DNS (on top of the requisite uptime criteria):
1) It's not tied to any other services (so I can switch, say, webhosts without having to move my DNS config)
2) It lets me configure timeouts so I can experiment with settings without waiting forever.
For these I shell out the $30/year for DynDNS.com. Totally worth it to not have to worry about this sort of thing. I also get dynamic DNS if I want to configure a home subdomain, which is built into most Linksys routers.
- preek 16y agoThanks for your insights. I also have a DynDNS account for my Linksys/DD-WRT router. And I agree on having DNS configuration decoupled from my other servies - years ago I used to run my own bind server. I don't want to sound cheap, because $30/y is totally affordable, but providers give you DNS for free (zoneedit, dnsexit, freedns, ..) - I'm trying to figure out which one is liked best on HN. But I'll note the DynDNS option, because you are right in saying that 30 bucks for a good service is next to nothing.
- randomtask 16y agoI use freedns for hosting for a non-critical domain. I've never noticed any problems with them, but to be honest if they went down for a few hours at a time I probably wouldn't notice on that domain.
- preek 16y agoWhat do you use on more critical pages, then? And thanks for the advice on freedns.
- randomtask 16y agoI didn't mean for my comment to imply that I have any critical pages :)
- yesimahuman 16y agoAnother good one is http://freedns.afraid.org/ http://freedns.afraid.org/ I used to use it years ago for a home server. When I was doing that I think I preferred it over the other ones I had previously used (dyndns comes to mind).
- borism 16y agoDynDNS is wonderful!