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Looking for a VPS with good uptime for secondary NS
I started learning BIND and feel confident enough to start hosting domains on it.
As BIND doesn't need much resources, really anything will do;
0,5 vCPU
128/256MB RAM
5GB Storage
50 Mbps Network
IPv4 and IPv6 with configurable rDNS
Something like this for 12 euros a year.
Also nothing from Hetzner as it is my primary NS.
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Pick up one. Frantech/Netcup/Virmach is probably closest to 12/mo you can get.
With IPv4 at 12 EUR/year you might need to wait for Black Friday.
For your use case you may sign up for a Oracle Free Tier instance. Works pretty decent for a small DNS server.
@EthernetServers has IPv4+IPv6 at $12/year, but do they have good uptime and rDNS?
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/180460/from-12-yr-openvz-7-vps-hosting-64-ipv6-solusvm
I have a different plan, but can confirm that til now EthernetServers' uptime is spot on.
Our stability is well known and we still have 15EUR KVMs for sale - https://alphavps.com/storage-vps.html . These will soon be out of our website, so last chance to get one!
You can use this new year deal from racknerd that I found
Links for both 512 and 786 MB plans.
Not sure if they are affiliates as I found them on this site
@datanomi We can provide an instance for 12 euros (10.25GBP ex VAT) at our UK, Coventry data centre if you are interested (1 Shared CPU, 512MB RAM, 10GB Disk, 100Mbps, 1xIPV4, /80 subnet IPv6).
Recurring Coupon Code:
512DEVS6Z9SNY
Order Link:
https://hostmedia.uk/client/cart.php?a=add&pid=493
You can read up more about the VM here: https://hostmedia.uk/vm-dev-series/
We have a good number of customers using these series for DNS services.
“good uptime”
With Virmach great uptime is guaranteed indeed.
I like to think our uptime is excellent
We do indeed allow rDNS! This can be set within the control panel for IPv4, and upon request in a support ticket for IPv6.
Thanks everyone for your suggestions and offers, I went with EthernetServers.
I used three NS and have good uptime
1) Ethernetserver
2) HostUS
3) Hosthatch
Glad to hear that, thank you for the mention!
You won't need a lot of RAM for small authoritative zones, but 128/256 MB is not much for most anything these days. What virtualization and OS are you planning on running?
The cheapest, longest uptime systems I have at roughly your specs are some $0.99 / month FDC VMs (but it looks like FDC no longer sells those small ones), a TinyKVM for $15/year, and a few BF specials (<$10/year) from VirMach. Given the ongoing system migrations at VirMach, you might want to wait at least until their next BF sales event.