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I run DNSimple (https://dnsimple.com https://dnsimple.com) and we have a full REST API and support domain registrations, transfers and SSL certificates as well.

by aeden 14y ago

I run DNSimple (https://dnsimple.com https://dnsimple.com) and we have a full REST API and support domain registrations, transfers and SSL certificates as well. Plus we have an ALIAS record type that's very useful for pointing your apex to services where they only provide a hostname. I'll be happy to answer any questions you have regarding our service either here or through our support channels.

redguava 14y ago
I just switched to DNSimple and their support has been great already.
destraynor 14y ago
Long time user of DNSimple. Great product, great support, great team, great price. Recommended.
- dedene 14y ago
  Me too, I can only recommend DNSimple (I'm coming from Zerigo - switched when they were acquired by 8x8), their service is awesome!
chrismdp 14y ago
Just to second this one: I've used DNSimple for years, and it's an awesome product. I can't imagine doing DNS without it now.
lessallan 14y ago
DNSimple is the best, seriously, no really, seriously.
rfc2616 14y ago
I admit that Zerigo was first to spoil me with a simple interface, but I came to DNSimple from there because of all the extra labor-saving features it has. I figure I get back at least 1-2 weeks of my life every year as a result of being a 100% DNSimple shop.
latch 14y ago
I know there's much love for DNSimple, but this is the first time that I can remember when the top comment of an X is down post is a competitor essentially posting an advert with no insight on the OP.
- aeden 14y ago
  I tried to add some insight on another comment, but it's tough to say anything about DDoS that hasn't already been said. DDoS attacks suck, mitigating them requires a multi-prong approach and proactive monitoring and agressive banning and even then you can still be screwed if your bandwidth is saturated. I feel for the operational folks at Zerigo - dealing with this type of outage is hard. The best thing they can do at this point is get back on Twitter and talk to their customers - the last post was 4 hours ago - that's a lifetime when your system is critical.
  - _phred 14y ago
    And DNS is, by definition, critical.
  - genek 14y ago
    How much capacity does DNSimple have though. It appears as though you are another unicast network. ns1.dnsimple.com is a server at Slicehost / Rackspace ns2.dnsimple.com is a server at Linode ns3.dnsimple.com is a server at prgmr.com / EGIHosting / Hurricane Electric ns4.dnsimple.com is a EC2 instance on Amazon How much computing power and attack traffic can those really handle? If you are going to offer a solution to a massive DDoS I would think that you would be careful on when to propose your solution. Instead of adding another unicast network to the mix, why wouldn't you start using an IP anycast network? Please explain how much capacity you have.
PonyGumbo 14y ago
Your pricing looks amazing - but it looks like you had an outage this morning too. Can you talk about that?
- aeden 14y ago
  Yes, we had a short outage this morning. We're still investigating the root cause but the symptoms were essentially a simultaneous slow down across all name servers. It's quite possible this is part of the same DDoS that Zerigo is facing, we're not certain - we've been seeing lots of spikes today from various IP addresses (but we've actually been seeing similar patterns for quite some time, as have other DNS providers). We'll post a more extensive post-mortem once we have a better understanding of what happened, but our main goal at the moment has been to ensure systems remain stable and responsive.
  - PonyGumbo 14y ago
    Thanks for your quick response. I'll follow up in an email with some additional questions about moving over my domains.
  - wlll 14y ago
    Two points: - The downtime was 40 minutes (according to Pingdom), that isn't short for something as critical as DNS. - It seems off to pimp yourself on a thread about a competitors downtime, especially when you had a significant one at pretty much the same time.
    - aeden 14y ago
      http://stats.pingdom.com/qqps0x9eb0at/195711 http://stats.pingdom.com/qqps0x9eb0at/195711 indicates the outage on NS1 was 26 minutes. It's still a long time and we're pulling the trigger on some changes (read: capital investments) to stop it from happening in the future.
    - genek 14y ago
      Instead of adding another unicast network to the mix, why wouldn't you start using an IP anycast network? DNSMadeEasy / Route53 / EasyDNS / etc.. It seems crazy to move from one service that purchases 6 name servers to another one that is only on 6 servers.... DNS Made Easy fought an attack that was over 200 Gbps a few months ago. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150668694804467&set=a.493253064466.294962.138520774466&type=3 http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150668694804467&#38... Can any unicast provider even really get close to fighting an attack like this? Let's be serious at some point.... 6 servers... the MOST you can push is 6 Gbps. And most likely they are bound to about 400 Mbps of DNS traffic (based on CPU load). Unless you have hundreds of name servers and multiple locations... are you even really competing in uptime anymore?
swatermasysk 14y ago
Another big fan of DNSimple here. Been with them for over a month and the services and support have been great. Even more impressive is we have directed a couple very non-technical customers to them and they all have been able to get up and running in no time.
jlecour 14y ago
I'm not (yet) an actual customer of DNSimple, but I know literally half of the team and I can vet for them, both humanly and technically. That said, I don't know anything about Zerigo and I have no opinion about them.
AhtiK 14y ago
The philosophy behind DNSimple is great! A few questions: * How much DNS traffic can it handle for one customer? Usually DNS-services that charge much more than DNSimple have this capped. * 99% availability (3.65d/y) sounds a bit too much for a production server DNS SLA, maybe after introducing a secondary DNS a much higher availability could be offered. Any timeline for adding a secondary DNS?
- aeden 14y ago
  * We don't cap traffic at the moment but we do work with our customers when the traffic is significant, offering suggestions on how to improve DNS caching. If we ever do need to cap we'll make sure to give plenty of notice to any customer that would be affected. * We don't have a timeline, but we have been working on it. We'd like to roll out support for secondary NOTIFY and AXFR, but perhaps we can find a short term solution without that.
quellhorst 14y ago
Maybe you should check if your own services are up next time you spam them in a thread where your competitors are down.
Rulero 14y ago
I signed up for your service earlier this morning because Zerigo were taking their time to solve the issue. However, what I would like to know is - have you guys implemented any procedures to mitigate any negative effects a DDoS may have on your services? (Assuming your service gets DDoS'd like Zerigo) The last thing I want is more down time and to switch to another provider once again.

by aeden 14y ago

redguava 14y ago

I just switched to DNSimple and their support has been great already.

destraynor 14y ago

Long time user of DNSimple. Great product, great support, great team, great price. Recommended.

dedene 14y ago
Me too, I can only recommend DNSimple (I'm coming from Zerigo - switched when they were acquired by 8x8), their service is awesome!

chrismdp 14y ago

Just to second this one: I've used DNSimple for years, and it's an awesome product. I can't imagine doing DNS without it now.

lessallan 14y ago

DNSimple is the best, seriously, no really, seriously.

rfc2616 14y ago

I admit that Zerigo was first to spoil me with a simple interface, but I came to DNSimple from there because of all the extra labor-saving features it has. I figure I get back at least 1-2 weeks of my life every year as a result of being a 100% DNSimple shop.

latch 14y ago

I know there's much love for DNSimple, but this is the first time that I can remember when the top comment of an X is down post is a competitor essentially posting an advert with no insight on the OP.

aeden 14y ago
I tried to add some insight on another comment, but it's tough to say anything about DDoS that hasn't already been said. DDoS attacks suck, mitigating them requires a multi-prong approach and proactive monitoring and agressive banning and even then you can still be screwed if your bandwidth is saturated. I feel for the operational folks at Zerigo - dealing with this type of outage is hard. The best thing they can do at this point is get back on Twitter and talk to their customers - the last post was 4 hours ago - that's a lifetime when your system is critical.
- _phred 14y ago
  And DNS is, by definition, critical.
- genek 14y ago
  How much capacity does DNSimple have though. It appears as though you are another unicast network. ns1.dnsimple.com is a server at Slicehost / Rackspace ns2.dnsimple.com is a server at Linode ns3.dnsimple.com is a server at prgmr.com / EGIHosting / Hurricane Electric ns4.dnsimple.com is a EC2 instance on Amazon How much computing power and attack traffic can those really handle? If you are going to offer a solution to a massive DDoS I would think that you would be careful on when to propose your solution. Instead of adding another unicast network to the mix, why wouldn't you start using an IP anycast network? Please explain how much capacity you have.

PonyGumbo 14y ago

Your pricing looks amazing - but it looks like you had an outage this morning too. Can you talk about that?

aeden 14y ago
Yes, we had a short outage this morning. We're still investigating the root cause but the symptoms were essentially a simultaneous slow down across all name servers. It's quite possible this is part of the same DDoS that Zerigo is facing, we're not certain - we've been seeing lots of spikes today from various IP addresses (but we've actually been seeing similar patterns for quite some time, as have other DNS providers). We'll post a more extensive post-mortem once we have a better understanding of what happened, but our main goal at the moment has been to ensure systems remain stable and responsive.
- PonyGumbo 14y ago
  Thanks for your quick response. I'll follow up in an email with some additional questions about moving over my domains.
- wlll 14y ago
  Two points: - The downtime was 40 minutes (according to Pingdom), that isn't short for something as critical as DNS. - It seems off to pimp yourself on a thread about a competitors downtime, especially when you had a significant one at pretty much the same time.
  - aeden 14y ago
    http://stats.pingdom.com/qqps0x9eb0at/195711 http://stats.pingdom.com/qqps0x9eb0at/195711 indicates the outage on NS1 was 26 minutes. It's still a long time and we're pulling the trigger on some changes (read: capital investments) to stop it from happening in the future.
  - genek 14y ago
    Instead of adding another unicast network to the mix, why wouldn't you start using an IP anycast network? DNSMadeEasy / Route53 / EasyDNS / etc.. It seems crazy to move from one service that purchases 6 name servers to another one that is only on 6 servers.... DNS Made Easy fought an attack that was over 200 Gbps a few months ago. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150668694804467&set=a.493253064466.294962.138520774466&type=3 http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150668694804467&#38... Can any unicast provider even really get close to fighting an attack like this? Let's be serious at some point.... 6 servers... the MOST you can push is 6 Gbps. And most likely they are bound to about 400 Mbps of DNS traffic (based on CPU load). Unless you have hundreds of name servers and multiple locations... are you even really competing in uptime anymore?

swatermasysk 14y ago

Another big fan of DNSimple here. Been with them for over a month and the services and support have been great. Even more impressive is we have directed a couple very non-technical customers to them and they all have been able to get up and running in no time.

jlecour 14y ago

I'm not (yet) an actual customer of DNSimple, but I know literally half of the team and I can vet for them, both humanly and technically. That said, I don't know anything about Zerigo and I have no opinion about them.

AhtiK 14y ago

The philosophy behind DNSimple is great! A few questions: * How much DNS traffic can it handle for one customer? Usually DNS-services that charge much more than DNSimple have this capped. * 99% availability (3.65d/y) sounds a bit too much for a production server DNS SLA, maybe after introducing a secondary DNS a much higher availability could be offered. Any timeline for adding a secondary DNS?

aeden 14y ago
* We don't cap traffic at the moment but we do work with our customers when the traffic is significant, offering suggestions on how to improve DNS caching. If we ever do need to cap we'll make sure to give plenty of notice to any customer that would be affected. * We don't have a timeline, but we have been working on it. We'd like to roll out support for secondary NOTIFY and AXFR, but perhaps we can find a short term solution without that.

quellhorst 14y ago

Maybe you should check if your own services are up next time you spam them in a thread where your competitors are down.

Rulero 14y ago

I signed up for your service earlier this morning because Zerigo were taking their time to solve the issue. However, what I would like to know is - have you guys implemented any procedures to mitigate any negative effects a DDoS may have on your services? (Assuming your service gets DDoS'd like Zerigo) The last thing I want is more down time and to switch to another provider once again.