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You had some - millions (?) of - DNS queries free in the past.

by KingOfCoders 3mo ago

khurs 3mo ago
Yes. Many others are free with no $1 minimum (e.g. Cloudflare)
- thepasch 3mo ago
  something something are the product
  - rozenmd 3mo ago
    Not _quite_ in this case, since the free plan improves everyone's experience: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-commitment-to-free/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-commitment-to-free/
    - bcye 3mo ago
      Well except of the people that may solve the damn captchas (:
  - khurs 3mo ago
    Cloudflare's business model appears to be wait till someone is generating lots of bandwidth and then give them 30 days to move up a tier or be closed down. I've read reports of companies on the business plan being strong armed into signing Enterprise plans with 1 year upfront. It's a listed company with revenue expectations, and VERY good at marketing itself, but it's free tier of CDN/DDOS to start off with is a good deal.
    - trick-or-treat 3mo ago
      Move up a tier or move somewhere where it costs even more. That seems kinda reasonable, really.
    - Barbing 3mo ago
      CloudFlare uses that Slack Hack Club model?
    - Chu4eeno 3mo ago
      Cloudflare's business model was to protect DDoS "providers"/booters for free, so DDoS became something everyone had to worry about (before cloudflare they tended to DDoS eachother), and then sell the cure. Krebs wrote some rather scathing posts about them when they were starting up.
- deleted 3mo ago
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- chaz6 3mo ago
  I wanted to give Cloudflare a go, but I did not want to move my whole domain. Unfortunately you can only host a subdomain with a paid account.
  - dizhn 3mo ago
    You only have to have them be your domain's name servers. Domains can stay at another registrar. This is pretty risk-free. They didn't even used to be a registrar until recently and they don't support registering all tlds so this always worked.
    - chaz6 3mo ago
      You are missing the point. I do not want delegate the root of my domain. I want to delegate a subdomain, which is not possible without a paid account. Not to be confused with the registrar.
      - dizhn 3mo ago
        I just saw this. You're right I thought you were just concerned about giving control of your domain to cloudflare.
dizhn 3mo ago
First time I am hearing of paying for DNS resolution but I am just a civilian.
- iso1631 3mo ago
  route53 charge somewhere in the region of $0.40 per million queries
- anonzzzies 3mo ago
  Aws charges for everything including that.
Scaled 3mo ago
I'm glad to hear the queries are free now! I somehow managed to blow through the free quota, not by like a crazy amount but enough that I started thinking in most circumstances why pay extra for basic dns when registrar's is free? Even barely used domains were getting tons of queries. And I only need the fancy failover feature on a couple domains, though it is nice for those for sure. Anyway with this I don't have to worry about it anymore, so thanks Bunny!

You had some - millions (?) of - DNS queries free in the past.

khurs 3mo ago

Yes. Many others are free with no $1 minimum (e.g. Cloudflare)

thepasch 3mo ago
something something are the product
- rozenmd 3mo ago
  Not _quite_ in this case, since the free plan improves everyone's experience: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-commitment-to-free/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-commitment-to-free/
  - bcye 3mo ago
    Well except of the people that may solve the damn captchas (:
- khurs 3mo ago
  Cloudflare's business model appears to be wait till someone is generating lots of bandwidth and then give them 30 days to move up a tier or be closed down. I've read reports of companies on the business plan being strong armed into signing Enterprise plans with 1 year upfront. It's a listed company with revenue expectations, and VERY good at marketing itself, but it's free tier of CDN/DDOS to start off with is a good deal.
  - trick-or-treat 3mo ago
    Move up a tier or move somewhere where it costs even more. That seems kinda reasonable, really.
  - Barbing 3mo ago
    CloudFlare uses that Slack Hack Club model?
  - Chu4eeno 3mo ago
    Cloudflare's business model was to protect DDoS "providers"/booters for free, so DDoS became something everyone had to worry about (before cloudflare they tended to DDoS eachother), and then sell the cure. Krebs wrote some rather scathing posts about them when they were starting up.
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chaz6 3mo ago
I wanted to give Cloudflare a go, but I did not want to move my whole domain. Unfortunately you can only host a subdomain with a paid account.
- dizhn 3mo ago
  You only have to have them be your domain's name servers. Domains can stay at another registrar. This is pretty risk-free. They didn't even used to be a registrar until recently and they don't support registering all tlds so this always worked.
  - chaz6 3mo ago
    You are missing the point. I do not want delegate the root of my domain. I want to delegate a subdomain, which is not possible without a paid account. Not to be confused with the registrar.
    - dizhn 3mo ago
      I just saw this. You're right I thought you were just concerned about giving control of your domain to cloudflare.

dizhn 3mo ago

First time I am hearing of paying for DNS resolution but I am just a civilian.

iso1631 3mo ago
route53 charge somewhere in the region of $0.40 per million queries
anonzzzies 3mo ago
Aws charges for everything including that.

Scaled 3mo ago

I'm glad to hear the queries are free now! I somehow managed to blow through the free quota, not by like a crazy amount but enough that I started thinking in most circumstances why pay extra for basic dns when registrar's is free? Even barely used domains were getting tons of queries. And I only need the fancy failover feature on a couple domains, though it is nice for those for sure. Anyway with this I don't have to worry about it anymore, so thanks Bunny!