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Wondered why my site was spotty. I love Namecheap as a registrar, but I'm questioning now whether I should be using them as my DNS provider. Any suggestions?

by teach 12y ago

hboon 12y ago
I'm using DNS Made Easy for a few of my domains. There's a couple of good alternatives.
- troels 12y ago
  Second that. I don't use them currently, but have in the past. dnsmadeeasy are solid.
breakingcups 12y ago
I can fully recommend Point (https://pointhq.com/ https://pointhq.com/), haven't had a single problem yet and support thus far has been very good. The web interface is easy to use and they offer both an API as well as the ability to export zone files. My only gripe would be that the claimed support response times as well as the 'call-me-back' button don't work as advertised.
- gaadd33 12y ago
  There doesn't seem to be any sort of information about their network, is it multicast? Geo distributed across the world? They mention "Access distributed nameservers across the UK and United States.", does that mean they have 1 VPS in each country serving DNS and that's it? Seems like they have a nice UI but the lack of technical details would make me a bit wary of it.
  - breakingcups 12y ago
    I don't know why they still have that information there... The nameservers I use of them are in: Mountain View, US Dallas, US Amsterdam, The Netherlands Maidenhead, UK Asia Singapore Frankfurt, Germany Paris, France And I know they have at least 5 more.
- aroch 12y ago
  IMO, PointHQ's quality and value proposition dropped after they were bought out / restructured into the Copper.io brand. Plus the change in pricing peeved me quite a bit.
  - breakingcups 12y ago
    That's the only thing that bothered me too. I was sort of grandfathered into the pricing structure but who knows how long that will last. Ah well, plenty of alternatives if it does go to shit, as we can see in this thread.
    - breakingcups 12y ago
      Oh boy I should've knocked on wood. They emailed me today, the old plan is gone. Now I have to upgrade to $8/month, which is ridiculous compared to the alternatives.
      - aroch 12y ago
        Yup, I ran into the same thing about a month ago. I've since switched over to Route53 -- it's going to cost to $4/mn for my personal domains.
- motrm 12y ago
  I moved to Point early this year after a power outage took my non-redundant and self-hosted DNS down - it was the first time it'd happened for several years but I wanted to avoid a repeat. In May, Point received a DDoS that took all (or many?) of their nameservers down and they didn't communicate what was happening very well. I moved back to self-hosting although, like others in this thread, I'd prefer to settle on using a few major players (Route53, Google, Cloudflare) to reduce the reliance on any one of them.
Sami_Lehtinen 12y ago
My NameCheap domains which are using CloudFlare do work perfectly, as well as domains which are using Yandex DNS.
celsoazevedo 12y ago
Cloudflare it's free and works very well (you don't have to use their reverse proxy/cdn).

Wondered why my site was spotty. I love Namecheap as a registrar, but I'm questioning now whether I should be using them as my DNS provider. Any suggestions?

by teach 12y ago

Wondered why my site was spotty. I love Namecheap as a registrar, but I'm questioning now whether I should be using them as my DNS provider. Any suggestions?

hboon 12y ago

I'm using DNS Made Easy for a few of my domains. There's a couple of good alternatives.

troels 12y ago
Second that. I don't use them currently, but have in the past. dnsmadeeasy are solid.

breakingcups 12y ago

I can fully recommend Point (https://pointhq.com/ https://pointhq.com/), haven't had a single problem yet and support thus far has been very good. The web interface is easy to use and they offer both an API as well as the ability to export zone files. My only gripe would be that the claimed support response times as well as the 'call-me-back' button don't work as advertised.

gaadd33 12y ago
There doesn't seem to be any sort of information about their network, is it multicast? Geo distributed across the world? They mention "Access distributed nameservers across the UK and United States.", does that mean they have 1 VPS in each country serving DNS and that's it? Seems like they have a nice UI but the lack of technical details would make me a bit wary of it.
- breakingcups 12y ago
  I don't know why they still have that information there... The nameservers I use of them are in: Mountain View, US Dallas, US Amsterdam, The Netherlands Maidenhead, UK Asia Singapore Frankfurt, Germany Paris, France And I know they have at least 5 more.
aroch 12y ago
IMO, PointHQ's quality and value proposition dropped after they were bought out / restructured into the Copper.io brand. Plus the change in pricing peeved me quite a bit.
- breakingcups 12y ago
  That's the only thing that bothered me too. I was sort of grandfathered into the pricing structure but who knows how long that will last. Ah well, plenty of alternatives if it does go to shit, as we can see in this thread.
  - breakingcups 12y ago
    Oh boy I should've knocked on wood. They emailed me today, the old plan is gone. Now I have to upgrade to $8/month, which is ridiculous compared to the alternatives.
    - aroch 12y ago
      Yup, I ran into the same thing about a month ago. I've since switched over to Route53 -- it's going to cost to $4/mn for my personal domains.
motrm 12y ago
I moved to Point early this year after a power outage took my non-redundant and self-hosted DNS down - it was the first time it'd happened for several years but I wanted to avoid a repeat. In May, Point received a DDoS that took all (or many?) of their nameservers down and they didn't communicate what was happening very well. I moved back to self-hosting although, like others in this thread, I'd prefer to settle on using a few major players (Route53, Google, Cloudflare) to reduce the reliance on any one of them.

Sami_Lehtinen 12y ago

My NameCheap domains which are using CloudFlare do work perfectly, as well as domains which are using Yandex DNS.

celsoazevedo 12y ago

Cloudflare it's free and works very well (you don't have to use their reverse proxy/cdn).