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Can you pls point to a good guide? I was thinking about it for years.
i kinda like zonomi interface tho
I use bunny and cloudflare free tier
https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/
Follow the documentation and you should have a server running within 2 minutes, literally.
for free https://wedos.global/zone/
Currently using Gcore's DNS free tier, great value for excellent performance.
I run a DNS hosting provider, not free but relatively cheap, but I don't offer vanity NS. Can you expand on why you want it, so that I can gauge how difficult the implementation would be?
What are the advantages over cloudflare free?
Advantages are mostly subjective, such as support handled by the person who built and operates the service, and being able to reuse your PowerDNS code and automations with a simple endpoint and API key change.
Some people dislike CloudFlare, so the simple fact of not being them is an advantage for them.
One objective advantage is that I support primary and secondary DNS zones on all plans, which Cloudflare supports only on Enterprise subscriptions.
Well this is kinda doing a whitelabeling or cloak of the provider.
Some place allow you to glue or soa dns so you can cloak.
Looking at your requirements, it shouldn't be very difficult to cloak the primary NS in the SOA record, and the PowerDNS API already allows one to define the A and NS records for the vanity DNS. Adding this feature to the web zone frontend would be a little more work though.
How do you plan to handle timely updating of the glue records if the NS IP need to change, for example if the DNS provider changes upstream or simply renumbers IPs?
Are there any plans to add a free tier, or a basic, less expensive plan?
dns.he.net doesn't offer the 'vanity' NS servers you are looking for.
Well normaly you just have to edit the NS record to the new ip.
Yeah i found out while trying em, so finaly i ended up using bunny.net
they are really friendly and is easy to set really happy with this solution and 20 millions request per month i will never reach that so is fine for me 
Its not 20 Millions per month, it's first 20 million.
I confirmed it with their support. its 20 million/month. Sorry for the confusion.
Slightly off-topic, but I feel a lot of the times, vanity NS is something you as a webmaster want but nobody at all except for you care for.
I don't care so much how it looks (I understand, though), but I do want to have control over the dns records, so I can script changes. I run the master dns myself and use he.net for the slave dns servers.
BunnyDNS, Gcore DNS
You can script changes with Cloudflare for free (I haven't tried he.net), so I've got my home server updating its DNS record whenever my ISP changes the IP.
I've been doing it for over a decade with dns.he.net.
I used to run my own DNS for years (15+) using djbdns, bit of a learning curve with all the patches that needed to be included but stable, small binaries, uses almost no resources. No good GUI for it though.
Oh wow, djbdns, now that's a name I haven't heard in a while. Brings me back to when everyone was running djbdns and qmail, preferably on some *BSD. Bernstein was a god and even brought the United States to court.
Damn, I'm old.
Transfer your domain to Spaceship. It is free to use their DNS.
Hi,
We offer Free DNS Hosting, but not which you want.
Feel free to use our DNS if you are looking for free DNS option or alternative to something.
Take a look:
https://alexhost.com/dns/
Best Regards,
Alexhost
I'm not opposed to having free plans, but it won't happen for a few months: I'd like to get a large enough base of happy, paying users, and then open to a limited group of free users to manage the time and resources they'll take.
If you want a cheaper plan, you can still use the coupon code
LETBF2024for 25% off recurring, whatever is the plan you choose.If it's still too much, can you let me know what would be your ideal spot in terms of price and resources for a basic plan?
I'm not your typical customer because my DNS needs happen to be simple and few. Even so, I'm always on the lookout for interesting options, especially if business needs require me to upgrade a single web site later.
Since you asked the question, it would be interesting to explore what might be possible to offer in a lifetime plan. For instance, how about lifetime, mid-range DNS hosting for just one zone or domain name? This might satisfy a customer who needs just a little more than what ClouDNS offers for free, but who also declines to upgrade at ClouDNS in order to avoid having a recurring bill. I'm sure we all recognize the risks lifetime offers pose for everyone involved. That's partly why I would think about keeping it modest. Maybe a lifetime plan could include a usage cap which, when exceeded, automatically generates an invoice.
You can use secondary dns, it's free. I use secondary dns with my panel
https://imgur.com/a/s98XsIz
There is a Reddit thread which describes problems with Spaceship. What do you guys think?
on December 8, I just bought a new domain and until now I have not experienced any problems.