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Very surprising so many people use Godaddy for their DNS, given it is very slow as far as DNS servers go. I've been running a Pingdom speed/reliability test f

by birken 16y ago

Very surprising so many people use Godaddy for their DNS, given it is very slow as far as DNS servers go. I've been running a Pingdom speed/reliability test for a few popular DNS servers for the past few months, and here is the data: Guide: <dns provider> <uptime %> <downtime> <outages> <avg speed> October: Godaddy DNS 100.00% 0h 00m 00s 0 68 ms Dynect SMB 100.00% 0h 00m 00s 0 31 ms DNSMadeEasy 100.00% 0h 00m 00s 0 39 ms November: Godaddy DNS 100.00% 0h 00m 00s 0 67 ms Dynect SMB 100.00% 0h 00m 00s 0 26 ms DNSMadeEasy 99.98% 0h 10m 00s 1 43 ms December: Godaddy DNS 99.99% 0h 05m 00s 1 58 ms Dynect SMB 100.00% 0h 00m 00s 0 28 ms DNSMadeEasy 99.00% 7h 25m 00s 22 40 ms So basically Godaddy DNS is reliable but slow, DNSMadeEasy is relatively fast but had some uptime troubles in December, and Dynect (Dyn Inc) is fast + super reliable. As for pricing: - Godaddy DNS is free (I think?) - DNSMadeEasy runs about $2-5/month (max of 10 million queries/month) - Dynect SMB runs between $30-95/month depending on what you need (max of 1.8 million queries/month)

jreposa 16y ago
Dynect has been super fast and reliable for us. Their customer service is also top notch. If your serious about availability, this is the place to start.
jasonemerick 16y ago
Any data on Amazon's route53 DNS offering?
- birken 16y ago
  Nope, it was just these 3 (as we were deciding between DNSMadeEasy and Dynect, and wanted to throw Godaddy in there for comparison). Although we currently use DNSMadeEasy, and due to the uptime issues we might be looking to switch at which point I'll cast a broader net. Of course if you have a pingdom account, setting up these DNS checks is quite easy. They have a special monitoring type just for DNS.
  - russmeaculp 16y ago
    What uptime issues? We have used DNS Made Easy for over 8 years and have never seen any uptime problems at all. Checking one name server through Pingdom is not giving you a detailed review of name servers. You could have checked another name server in Dynect and they could of had twice as much downtime... but still Dynect was up. Showing one name server is good, but it is not judging a providers "downtime". Would be much more useful if you tested all name servers. If several were down at once then yes... there is a good chance that you could loose a query. Thanks for the efforts though.
biot 16y ago
Were the DNSMadeEasy outages related to their DDoS after they terminated DNS services for Wikileaks?
- dchest 16y ago
  That was EveryDNS.net
  - biot 16y ago
    Mea culpa, you are correct. I got the names mixed up.
    - jf 16y ago
      You're not the only one :/
- birken 16y ago
  Well to be completely fair to DNSMadeEasy, this failure wasn't necessarily their entire service, it was just the one nameserver pingdom was testing, ns10.dnsmadeeasy.com. However, both GoDaddy and Dynect were tested using just one nameserver, so the comparison is fair. I'm not sure what the cause of it was though.
  - mscarborough 16y ago
    Not 'fair' if you're posting statistics from one nameserver of each in order to represent uptime for the service as a whole.
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csmeder 16y ago
I'm very surprised how many people use GoDaddy in any form. To leave your domain name in the hands of some one with such a bad reputation seems risky. eg. http://www.google.com/search?q=go+daddy+stole+my+domain+name http://www.google.com/search?q=go+daddy+stole+my+domain+name Maybe for YC 2011 we could have a start up compete with GoDaddy. If some one started a trustworthy domain register targeted at start ups I could see it doing well.
russmeaculp 16y ago
Yes the pricing is just ridiculous.... I never knew that the Dynect SMB went over 600k... they must have just increased that recently.... But $95 per month for 1.8 million queries.... INSANE!!! and now Amazon Route 53 is 50 cents per million queries..... they are going to eat everyone's lunch!
russmeaculp 16y ago
Which name server were you using from each provider?
russmeaculp 16y ago
Found this post recently at http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1004995 http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1004995. This report actually checked an average of all name servers on Pingdom for a month. The full posting said: I have been really down on Dynect because of their sales approach and their in-the-face cocky attitude. My very few interactions with them have been to immediately put down companies and competitors with complete BS statements. But I have seen many people say how great the performance is. So did a pingdom test for all of their servers (used Twitter) and I did a test for all of my name servers on DNS Made Easy. These are averages for "ALL" name servers. DNS Made Easy: Avg. Response Time 34 ms Slowest avg. response time 58 ms Fastest avg. response time 23 ms Dynect: Avg. Response Time 37 ms Slowest avg. response time 59 ms Fastest avg. response time 27 ms Now Pingdom only does US and Europe testing... nothing in Asia where is looks like Dynect is stronger. But their network is no where as strong as they say it is. I have done as many trace routes as possible and I can never get a query answered in their singapore or australia locations. So really... I do not get it.... Where is Dynect faster? Now I know this is only for the past month.... but really.... I think DNS Made Easy runs a hell of a network and they are a fraction of the Dynect guys (whom I have negative feelings about anyway). Looking at tools like www.dnscomparison.com it looks like DNSMadeEasy is fastest some weeks, Dynect is fast other weeks, UltraDNS is faster some other weeks. Of course I'm not sure how "honest" this is as well. But create a pingdom account... do some tests... be interested in seeing other results. So far I say that DNSMadeEasy is as fast or faster then the ones that are many times more expensive.

by birken 16y ago

jreposa 16y ago

Dynect has been super fast and reliable for us. Their customer service is also top notch. If your serious about availability, this is the place to start.

jasonemerick 16y ago

Any data on Amazon's route53 DNS offering?

birken 16y ago
Nope, it was just these 3 (as we were deciding between DNSMadeEasy and Dynect, and wanted to throw Godaddy in there for comparison). Although we currently use DNSMadeEasy, and due to the uptime issues we might be looking to switch at which point I'll cast a broader net. Of course if you have a pingdom account, setting up these DNS checks is quite easy. They have a special monitoring type just for DNS.
- russmeaculp 16y ago
  What uptime issues? We have used DNS Made Easy for over 8 years and have never seen any uptime problems at all. Checking one name server through Pingdom is not giving you a detailed review of name servers. You could have checked another name server in Dynect and they could of had twice as much downtime... but still Dynect was up. Showing one name server is good, but it is not judging a providers "downtime". Would be much more useful if you tested all name servers. If several were down at once then yes... there is a good chance that you could loose a query. Thanks for the efforts though.

biot 16y ago

Were the DNSMadeEasy outages related to their DDoS after they terminated DNS services for Wikileaks?

dchest 16y ago
That was EveryDNS.net
- biot 16y ago
  Mea culpa, you are correct. I got the names mixed up.
  - jf 16y ago
    You're not the only one :/
birken 16y ago
Well to be completely fair to DNSMadeEasy, this failure wasn't necessarily their entire service, it was just the one nameserver pingdom was testing, ns10.dnsmadeeasy.com. However, both GoDaddy and Dynect were tested using just one nameserver, so the comparison is fair. I'm not sure what the cause of it was though.
- mscarborough 16y ago
  Not 'fair' if you're posting statistics from one nameserver of each in order to represent uptime for the service as a whole.

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csmeder 16y ago

I'm very surprised how many people use GoDaddy in any form. To leave your domain name in the hands of some one with such a bad reputation seems risky. eg. http://www.google.com/search?q=go+daddy+stole+my+domain+name http://www.google.com/search?q=go+daddy+stole+my+domain+name Maybe for YC 2011 we could have a start up compete with GoDaddy. If some one started a trustworthy domain register targeted at start ups I could see it doing well.

russmeaculp 16y ago

Yes the pricing is just ridiculous.... I never knew that the Dynect SMB went over 600k... they must have just increased that recently.... But $95 per month for 1.8 million queries.... INSANE!!! and now Amazon Route 53 is 50 cents per million queries..... they are going to eat everyone's lunch!

russmeaculp 16y ago

Which name server were you using from each provider?

russmeaculp 16y ago

Found this post recently at http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1004995 http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1004995. This report actually checked an average of all name servers on Pingdom for a month. The full posting said: I have been really down on Dynect because of their sales approach and their in-the-face cocky attitude. My very few interactions with them have been to immediately put down companies and competitors with complete BS statements. But I have seen many people say how great the performance is. So did a pingdom test for all of their servers (used Twitter) and I did a test for all of my name servers on DNS Made Easy. These are averages for "ALL" name servers. DNS Made Easy: Avg. Response Time 34 ms Slowest avg. response time 58 ms Fastest avg. response time 23 ms Dynect: Avg. Response Time 37 ms Slowest avg. response time 59 ms Fastest avg. response time 27 ms Now Pingdom only does US and Europe testing... nothing in Asia where is looks like Dynect is stronger. But their network is no where as strong as they say it is. I have done as many trace routes as possible and I can never get a query answered in their singapore or australia locations. So really... I do not get it.... Where is Dynect faster? Now I know this is only for the past month.... but really.... I think DNS Made Easy runs a hell of a network and they are a fraction of the Dynect guys (whom I have negative feelings about anyway). Looking at tools like www.dnscomparison.com it looks like DNSMadeEasy is fastest some weeks, Dynect is fast other weeks, UltraDNS is faster some other weeks. Of course I'm not sure how "honest" this is as well. But create a pingdom account... do some tests... be interested in seeing other results. So far I say that DNSMadeEasy is as fast or faster then the ones that are many times more expensive.