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Thanks 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 -

by preek 16y ago

Thanks 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 ago
I 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 ago
  What do you use on more critical pages, then? And thanks for the advice on freedns.
  - randomtask 16y ago
    I didn't mean for my comment to imply that I have any critical pages :)
  - yesimahuman 16y ago
    Another 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).