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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 inter

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.

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.