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Ask HN: Which DNS service/s outside of AWS to use?
I'm on the look out for a new DNS provider which offers dynamic fail over and location based routing out side of route 53. Ultimately I'd like to have 2 such services to allow for redundancy in providers.
What solutions do you guys use?
Any wisdom is appreciated!
- stevedomin 14y agoNever used it but I believe Rackspace offer is pretty similar to the AWS one : http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/dns/ http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/dns/
- benologist 14y agoDNSPark is very nice with great redundancy and very low prices. http://dnspark.net/ http://dnspark.net/
- lkinc 14y agoFor over 13 years, Dyn has powered industry leading uptime for the biggest web brands, small businesses and personal users around the world. Take a look at Dyn’s various DNS products and evaluate what’s right for you. http://dyn.com/dns/ http://dyn.com/dns/
- ecaron 14y agoAfter being with Dyn for 8+ years, this last week I moved from them to Amazon. The Dyn interface is chaotic - so bad I contemplated just reverting to hosting DNS myself in PowerDNS/Poweradmin (https://www.poweradmin.org/trac/ https://www.poweradmin.org/trac/). I never had downtime issues with Dyn, and the performance was satisfactory. But I tried talking a coworker through updating our TXT/SPF record and told him he'd have to "stumble around until he found the right interface" - at that point I realized we deserved better.
- davidgerard 14y agoThe unbelievably terrible interface was a major factor in us moving our stuff from Netnames to Amazon. Amazon Route53 is just ridiculously easy to use. Also, machine-controllable. Not as good as shadow primary, but second-best option and saves us so much frustration just doing stuff. Though if there were someone who was as non-sucky to use as Amazon, I'd be interested too.
- donavanm 14y agoIf you really want AXFR check out Route53d http://code.google.com/p/route53d/ http://code.google.com/p/route53d/. Acts as an AXFR to route53 API proxy. The route 53 sample code also has import/export to bind zone file format.
- justincormack 14y agoI think zerigo do have all that although I only use their non geo service. They have an API to automate changes.
- eduardordm 14y agoCan't go wrong with Dyn.
- swiil 14y agoWent with Dyn - thanks. Route 53 is nice but its concerning to have hosting and DNS with the same provider.
- icanhearyou 14y agoMy company uses Rackspace with Cloud Sites with their DNS. Very few issues and great customer service.
- michaelmior 14y agoPerhaps Point? (https://pointhq.com/ https://pointhq.com/) Don't use them myself, but I've heard good things.