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avb | 12 years ago

Any good suggestions for alternative DNS providers?

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Instead of putting all of your eggs in (yet another) one basket, for a site with critical availability requirements I would distribute DNS over multiple providers. If any one provider goes down it is less likely to hurt overall site availability.

avb|12 years ago

Yes, multiple DNS providers should be the way to go.

jgrahamc|12 years ago

You can use CloudFlare's free plan as DNS-only.

eli|12 years ago

It makes me nervous to rely on something that's a side benefit of a free service.

That said, I've heard Cloudflare's DNS network is faster than many paid alternatives.

blissofbeing|12 years ago

DNSMadeEasy, I just posted about them in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7275538

zrail|12 years ago

I moved most of my stuff to Route53 awhile back and for the most part I don't regret it.

jmreid|12 years ago

Yes, Route 53 has been great for me as well. I have my crucial DNS zones hosted there. But all the other stuff was on Namecheap's name servers.

I'll probably continue with that setup, but just make sure my TTL is set fairly high.

jschuur|12 years ago

Pricing doesn't seem too bad. $0.50 for a zone (domain) and $0.50 for a billion queries: http://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/

sparagi|12 years ago

We looked at Route 53, but would that make a difference today if your domain is registered at Namecheap?

If Namecheap is down, it does not get redirected.

benmorris|12 years ago

I've considered doing this also!

cobrabyte|12 years ago

We've been stoked with DNSimple.