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I want to like route 53 but I always go back to cloudflare. Something about the uncertainty of the bill with AWS just doesn't help me sleep well at night.
I've thought about that, but the hassle of maintaining 2 LEBs is just not worth it.
I've decided to try route 53 for now, apparently they offer students $35 in free credit so I can try them risk free
I prefer unbound, though I wouldn't use a LEB for any nameservers, just local resolving.
Same. We manage several thousand domains for clients and give the option for 3rd party DNS when the registrar is lacking a facility. I'm wary of ones that charge by volume of queries. I'd trust Amazon to be accurate in this case, but there's nothing stopping an adversary inflating your costs.
If AWS was free, obviously them. Since that's not the case, CloudFlare is mostly good.
I can't believe no one has mentioned:
http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/
I have 55 domains on the Edna + Jim nameservers on CloudFlare. No complaints yet - their support was quite nice too when my account was hacked. I just told them on their phone and presto... I could sign in again
While great - it's not free.
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And CloudFlare themselves have bragged about people with thousands of domains on one account, so, yeah, I'd say they're fine with it.
I agree, anyone with route53?
AWS Route 53 was being discussed and it is not free.
Didn't understand that too... ;-)
It works, my nameservers going down on Route53 has never crossed my mind. They also support aliasing - which you have to pay $20/m for with Cloudflare.
What's the most you recall paying for a month? Off the top of your head is good enough. I'm flirting with the idea of it, just scared of it. It's definitely on the upper end of capabilities, if not on the top.
With only Route53, the most I've paid has been maybe $5. However, also consider that I only have around 1,200 unique visitors across my domain a day - so definitely not high volume. I wouldn't doubt that caching servers take most of the traffic anyway.
I mainly use it for the awesome API and tooling.
I've now tried Route 53 and so far it seems fine. The webinterface is simple (much like HE's) and can import BIND zone files which is nice for migration. There are a ton of advanced features that I don't really need (monitoring, automatic failover, load balancing, geodns, etc) but which might be nice for some.
@jarland: You can set up billing caps/alerts so that you e.g. get a notification after spending 20$/month and AWS shuts itself down after 50$/month. This might be nice for trying it out since you would have some time to migrate away after reaching the warning notification.
I have a couple of zones at HE.NET which I plan to move to either AWS Route 53 or cloud.google.com/dns
However I'm skeptical about costing and pricing calculations about "Queries Per Month" Is there an approximate way to measure my average Queries on He.Net or other DNS hostings ?
Of interesting note, I just noticed NameCheap is selling what they call premium DNS for dirt cheap. DDOS protection at the DNS level they claim (which I assume is masked IP like cloudflare, but can't confirm).
The DDoS protection just sounds like their DNS servers are DDoS protected from reading it. Still might be a decent deal for only 5bux a year.
Ooh gotta give Namecheap a try, 4.88 is a good price.
I think.. Cloudflare or your own nameservers is the best solution
is per domain... not a reseller account or something to host multiple domains. Just FYI
A DNS Speed comparison that might be of interest.
http://www.solvedns.com/dns-comparison/2016/02
For me in Australia it seems Verisign doesn't have a local POP for DNS. The closest locations seem to be Hong Kong and Tokyo, the NameCheap price does seem good though. The same from AWS Route 53 would be $1.30 per month.
My wish list for a managed DNS provider :-)
@josephb - sounds like Rage4 DNS
@gbshouse I haven't tried Rage4 for a few years if I recall.
However when I last did, the number of DNS queries being logged/consumed seemed out of proportion to the domain. Without an easy way to find the root cause I moved the domain elsewhere.
I'll try again with another domain shortly and see how things are
Be careful when transfering .com/.net domains to Amazon and requiring whois privacy. They only offer full privacy for .com/.net domains that are registered with them, if you transfer the domain it goes to Gandi.net which doesn't offer full whois privacy.