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Why not use cloudflare? It is free and has ipv6 baked in.

• benmorris 12y ago
  Good point, I will have to check that out
• cmstoken 12y ago
  Anything to keep in mind when switching to cloudflare? Is it completely free?
  • nullrouted 12y ago
    Nope, it works well. You can just use their DNS service.
    • Someone1234 12y ago
      People have claimed (on HK) that their free tier slows down your site, any truth to those claims in your experience?
      • brandonwamboldt 12y ago
        As somebody with sites using all three tiers of their service, I haven't noticed a speed difference between any of the tiers.
      • computer 12y ago
        I've had that experience (with Cloudflare in general, not DNS). My average response times as measured by Google webmaster tools went from 30ms to 300ms, if I remember correctly. This way ~18 months ago though, so I don't know if it has changed. And it's to be expected to be slightly slower, at least for dynamic requests, since it's a reverse proxy. I doubt it's limited to the free tier. I've used the DNS for a few years without any issues whatsoever, so I'd recommend them for that.
      • celsoazevedo 12y ago
        You can use Cloudflare to manage DNS only, so there is no "slow down".
  • ikawe 12y ago
    Went through this last week with dnsimple =) The one problem I encountered with cloudflare is that they don't allow you specify none cloudflare NS. This presents a problem if you want to have redundant, cross provider DNS. In our case, we could still specify a cross-provider mix of NS records at our registrar, but it seems like it doesn't take affect until the TTL on the cached NS records expires. So - this left us with a failover, but not really a graceful one.