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Route53 is a much better alternative to running your own service. I used to have a similar setup for taskup.com and other sites that I'm hosting but for the $0.

Route53 is a much better alternative to running your own service. I used to have a similar setup for taskup.com and other sites that I'm hosting but for the $0.20 that I pay every month to Amazon, I get weighted DNS responses based on the region that the request comes from and requests get served to the local server for that region, redundancy in 12+ zones, etc. The latency alone for a DNS lookup from India was about 300ms to our server in PA, but now it's under 30ms. Having said that, it's a good learning opportunity.

onetwothreefour 14y ago
There's literally no reason to ever run your own DNS when Route53 and DNSMadeEasy exist.
lesterbuck 14y ago
My reading of the Route53 prices is that you pay $.50/month/domain, plus query charges after a million. How do you pay $0.20/month? I find it very irritating that Amazon says "Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee." when there obviously is a minimum fee of $.50/month, even if zero queries are resolved. There are entire low end VPS servers that cost only marginally more ($14/yr) than what Route53 costs for one lousy domain, i.e. one entry in a database table.
- aioprisan 14y ago
  sorry, that was supposed to be $1.50/month
- aioprisan 14y ago
  with Route53, it's not just another entry in a DNS zone file, you actually get multiple-zone IP addresses for each domain hosted, by default. Also, you get WRR and anycast, as well as latency based routing. Not to mention that you can create aliases that are not visible to resolvers but point to internal Amazon resources that you have access to.
rscale 14y ago
I switched to Route 53 (from TinyDNS with custom RoR/Postgres frontend) and I'm completely satisfied. The bills are tiny, the service has been reliable, the console lets me make all our desired records without a lot of hoop-jumping, and somebody else maintains everything. Migration was a one-day project, including DR. There are some added bonuses if you happen to be using other AWS services, but even without those, I think Route53 is one of Amazon's better offerings.

onetwothreefour 14y ago

There's literally no reason to ever run your own DNS when Route53 and DNSMadeEasy exist.

lesterbuck 14y ago

My reading of the Route53 prices is that you pay $.50/month/domain, plus query charges after a million. How do you pay $0.20/month? I find it very irritating that Amazon says "Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee." when there obviously is a minimum fee of $.50/month, even if zero queries are resolved. There are entire low end VPS servers that cost only marginally more ($14/yr) than what Route53 costs for one lousy domain, i.e. one entry in a database table.

aioprisan 14y ago
sorry, that was supposed to be $1.50/month
aioprisan 14y ago
with Route53, it's not just another entry in a DNS zone file, you actually get multiple-zone IP addresses for each domain hosted, by default. Also, you get WRR and anycast, as well as latency based routing. Not to mention that you can create aliases that are not visible to resolvers but point to internal Amazon resources that you have access to.

rscale 14y ago

I switched to Route 53 (from TinyDNS with custom RoR/Postgres frontend) and I'm completely satisfied. The bills are tiny, the service has been reliable, the console lets me make all our desired records without a lot of hoop-jumping, and somebody else maintains everything. Migration was a one-day project, including DR. There are some added bonuses if you happen to be using other AWS services, but even without those, I think Route53 is one of Amazon's better offerings.