Budget DNS hosting with large amount of queries?

winston

I'm looking for budget DNS hosting (no, not Cloudflare) to host about 20 domains. I'm using Zerigo's free DNS service on 2 domains right now (50k monthly queries) and have had 13k queries in 3 days. I was thinking of getting Zerigo Essential 1 (or even Plus 1) but I'm not sure 1m queries will cover it to be honest. These 2 domains are not the highest traffic domains I have - probably somewhere in the middle. Are there any other quality DNS hosts on a low-end budget?

And no, I'd rather not host my own DNS servers ;)

NanoG6

This is PointHQ pricing: But they don't mention about queries limit / quota

winston

I'm looking for US DNS hosting, forgot to mention that

NanoG6

@winston said: US DNS hosting

You mean the server or company?

winston

@NanoG6 said: You mean the server or company?

The server - I'm looking into PointHQ now but the price right there is in euros (or is it pounds?)

NanoG6

Errrr... that's Pound I believe. these are their servers: dns1-5.pointhq.com try ping / traceroute

winston

Nothing to really write home about, all of them seemed to be above 90ms. Also, $75/yr seems to be a little more than I was looking to spend - it makes more sense to go with Zerigo at $40/yr for 30 domains

NanoG6

Hmm yeah I forgot you're looking at budget offer. $75/year is definitely not IMO :)

klikli

Amazon Route 53:)? Or if not, a combination of HE, GoDaddy and Namecheap:)

And both Godaddy and Enom provides premium offsite DNS:)

winston

I should mention that I'll be managing several of my clients DNS so something like GoDaddy/Namecheap won't work (I don't own their domains - they simply point their nameservers to what I ask them to and I take care of the rest)

Taz

Get couple of lEB and setup your own DNS?

winston

@Taz_NinjaHawk said: Get couple of lEB and setup your own DNS?

Not interested in doing that myself at this time, I'd rather just use a reliable/reputable DNS service ;)

sandbox

use those anycast dns. like softlayer, godaddy, or dnsmadeeasy

CVPS_Kevin

+1 for dnsmadeeasy they are awesome

john

@FTN_Kevin said: +1 for dnsmadeeasy they are awesome

I second this.