We might consider your service as soon we know how much DNS requests we actually have. Our current provider does not keep record/doesn't know how much we get..

@Freek - imagine the same IP assigned to multiple servers across the globe, even if some of them died the rest is still available. The best server is picked by network point of view (usually the clos…

Could you please explain to me in layman terms what exactly is anycast DNS and in what way does it make my DNS more reliable, for example in an event that one nameserver goes down?

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It's one thing to find a secondary DNS service, but making that service aware of new and removed domains is another. Adding and removing domains manually is not practical with a busy hosting server, p

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@Asim yes, but decent software verifies that there is a matching forward DNS for the rDNS, otherwise just the IP would be put in logs instead of the name.

DNS query times were benchmarked from 10 different countries 13 locations worldwide.Previous NS was in UK.Comparing to UK, average DNS resolution latency was lowered about 150ms using Rage4.

Have a look at processing latency for running php/apache/mysql at an url(IP address was used to avoid DNS latency) from different locations:

@Freek - Yes, CF is running anycast DNS which is enough secure (I'm not sure how many nodes do they have). With Rage4, beside anycast DNS you can use additional third party slave DNS servers (like HE.

So if I understand it correctly, Cloudflare does not have this. It only has an anycast DNS, which redirects users to the closest DNS to them, to reduce latency? And if I want DNS failover, I need to i

This domain registrar looks interesting and they have a pretty good looking anycast DNS service.. https://www.nameterrific.com/

yeah. mysql master-master, rsyncs, and round robin dns. (Image)

There is difference between DNS failover and failover DNS (Image)

You can sleep at night and not worry about taking care of extra machines, etc. and simply outsource the DNS hosting.

With anycast DNS you have 2 NS records but in fact there are more servers in the background (Rage4 uses 15). They are announcing the same IP in different parts or world/network. Regarding UptimeRobot

http://www.dnsreviews.com/hosteddns/dns-made-easy_reviews/

I personally have 8 DNS servers powered by cPanel DNS-Only. I've tried to spread them out with different providers/networks/datacentres. The smallest VPS is 192mb of RAM and the only service running i

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