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I'm not sure I'd trust something as mission-critical as DNS to a business which doesn't appear to have a viable business plan. I noticed you're suggesting the

by lambada 14y ago

I'm not sure I'd trust something as mission-critical as DNS to a business which doesn't appear to have a viable business plan. I noticed you're suggesting the freemium route - any details on how that's planning to work? Buying more record slots? Restrict certain types of records? Free GApps/Heroku/AWS configuration, custom configurations cost?

sorich87 14y ago
I am not affiliated to that site. I just saw it somewhere (can't remember where) and thought HN would find it interesting. Hopefully the owners notice the traffic bump and come here to reply to the questions.
chrisblackwell 14y ago
I agree. I use pointhq.com because they have a free version, but they also have a paid version if you plan to use it on more then 10 domains. I think this is the better route to go.
- maratd 14y ago
  I went with Rackspace DNS, which is free and has no limits. There are many, many other options. I think Linode has a similar offering?
  - IgorPartola 14y ago
    My favorite thus far has been http://dns.he.net http://dns.he.net. Hurricane Electric runs many free services and when the time comes, I will be paying for their paid services as well. TunnelBroker alone is fantastic and has saved me many hours. On topic, I checked out EntryDNS when they first announced it on HN. Glad to see many improvements, such as including HTTPS support, AAAA records, etc. Great job! Edit: as a suggestion, let me view DNS zones directly. That would be very helpful to some, and also eliminate the need to learn how to translate between different providers' UI's.
    - calinet6 14y ago
      You have no idea how awesome this is. I've been looking for a good, reliable, and fully-featured managed DNS literally for the last 2 weeks straight (I'm tired of the default managed offerings from Rackspace, they are pretty bare-bones). None (free or paid) I've found have impressed me. I've taken Hurricane Electric's IPv6 certification courses, used their Tunnel broker services, and I implicitly trust their tech. They really know what they're doing and their services are complete, well-managed, and work great. I will also gladly pay for their offerings if they move in that direction. For those of you who haven't been introduced to Hurricane, please visit the site above and explore it. I highly recommend the IPv6 certification as a way to introduce yourself to IPv6 concepts, and the tunnel broker service as a way to set your own sites and clients up to use it before you have available infrastructure from your ISP or host. Thank you very much, this is great news indeed.
      - IgorPartola 14y ago
        Yes, HE's only limit is something like 50 zones, which for my projects is plenty. Their interface is solid and simple to use, and they support reverse DNS as well. Also, their support for these free products rocks. I haven't had support that great for any SaaS/PaaS out there, ever. They respond very quickly and actually know what they are talking about. So far I've found only two issues: (1) no support for DNSSEC and (2) their use of HTTPS is somewhat spotty, so you must pay attention to it yourself. Glad you found what you were looking for, and thanks for plugging TunnelBroker. The more people use services like these, the more IPv6 we'll be seeing. Edit: I take it back. Looks like they always use HTTPS. It's tunnelbroker.net and tunnelbroker.com that don't.

by lambada 14y ago

sorich87 14y ago

I am not affiliated to that site. I just saw it somewhere (can't remember where) and thought HN would find it interesting. Hopefully the owners notice the traffic bump and come here to reply to the questions.

chrisblackwell 14y ago

I agree. I use pointhq.com because they have a free version, but they also have a paid version if you plan to use it on more then 10 domains. I think this is the better route to go.

maratd 14y ago
I went with Rackspace DNS, which is free and has no limits. There are many, many other options. I think Linode has a similar offering?
- IgorPartola 14y ago
  My favorite thus far has been http://dns.he.net http://dns.he.net. Hurricane Electric runs many free services and when the time comes, I will be paying for their paid services as well. TunnelBroker alone is fantastic and has saved me many hours. On topic, I checked out EntryDNS when they first announced it on HN. Glad to see many improvements, such as including HTTPS support, AAAA records, etc. Great job! Edit: as a suggestion, let me view DNS zones directly. That would be very helpful to some, and also eliminate the need to learn how to translate between different providers' UI's.
  - calinet6 14y ago
    You have no idea how awesome this is. I've been looking for a good, reliable, and fully-featured managed DNS literally for the last 2 weeks straight (I'm tired of the default managed offerings from Rackspace, they are pretty bare-bones). None (free or paid) I've found have impressed me. I've taken Hurricane Electric's IPv6 certification courses, used their Tunnel broker services, and I implicitly trust their tech. They really know what they're doing and their services are complete, well-managed, and work great. I will also gladly pay for their offerings if they move in that direction. For those of you who haven't been introduced to Hurricane, please visit the site above and explore it. I highly recommend the IPv6 certification as a way to introduce yourself to IPv6 concepts, and the tunnel broker service as a way to set your own sites and clients up to use it before you have available infrastructure from your ISP or host. Thank you very much, this is great news indeed.
    - IgorPartola 14y ago
      Yes, HE's only limit is something like 50 zones, which for my projects is plenty. Their interface is solid and simple to use, and they support reverse DNS as well. Also, their support for these free products rocks. I haven't had support that great for any SaaS/PaaS out there, ever. They respond very quickly and actually know what they are talking about. So far I've found only two issues: (1) no support for DNSSEC and (2) their use of HTTPS is somewhat spotty, so you must pay attention to it yourself. Glad you found what you were looking for, and thanks for plugging TunnelBroker. The more people use services like these, the more IPv6 we'll be seeing. Edit: I take it back. Looks like they always use HTTPS. It's tunnelbroker.net and tunnelbroker.com that don't.