You will have root access to your virtual machine. You can manage your VPS using SolusVM control panel wherein you can set the reverse DNS for your IP address without needing to contact technical supp

If your site can't serve to Cloudflare an you have set-up DNS records which reveal backend IP, Malicious users just find that with a cloudflare resolver an ddos it, Thus defeating the purpose of the d

*Free anycast DNS management (Rage4)

If everything looks good, consider changing your DNS or other records to point to the new server.

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So both DNS servers are hosted by yourself?

I am thinking of setting up a domain name and using rage4 DNS + uptimerobot for automatic-ish failover but have not got around to it.

servers + a @prometeus server for a redundant dns service and a @SpeedBus vps, because you could order it anonymously for some free-speach stuff.

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I used to run a free DNS subdomain service (like freedns.afraid.org but on a much smaller scale) and it was much easier to write a custom management panel for PowerDNS. CRUD operations with a database

I signed up for one today, i'll be using it as a DNS server, most likely.

That's true. I have been running the free DNS hosting www.DNSbed.com for years, BIND is not that convenient for thousands of domains. BTW, if using powerdns the zone data is transfered by database's r

Once you have a pretty large DNS cluster, you will see how easily everything gets botched up. Using a solution based on MySQL,etc. is definitely the way to go.

Reload of bind only takes half a second if you have a very limited number of zones. Powerdns tends to scale better than bind when you have a large number of zones

I don't think there is anything wrong with Bind, but after running it for years and years, it was nice to see a newer take on DNS servers(auth/recursive) with PowerDNS. For me, I like that I can run t

http://wiki.powerdns.com/trac

I thought nobody does that - keeping DNS service on the same server. That's just stupid, and useless. I keep 5 nameservers, each one hosted on a different provider/DC.

yes if you load your own DNS servers externally, Loading em on same site as host means its down while you move things over, I personally use cloudflare as it keeps it simple an easy.

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Use cloudflare to manage your Dns that way when you amend a record for the domain you are waiting 5-10 minutes for cloudflare systems to resolve. :P