@numin, the queries do add up. If you plan to host stuff for other people/customers, it will get pricey fast. You have to be very resourceful with how you setup the DNS and how many "health

- Custom Reverse DNS (RDNS) records

@nunim - we are going to launch our new DNS service on 1st of August. It's dedicated for small and medium sites and included fail over DNS and Geo DNS.

Like I said, it relies on your own DNS reporting your location correctly... and I'm pretty sure this is from the GeoScaling wiki, but hey, you get the added bonus of a few common providers' co-ordinat

Just a hint though, it is DNS based location, so if they're using something other than their ISP's default DNS, then it can fail quite dramatically.

I'm wearing of paying by query amount, I've read some posts before with people stating that after they moved the nameservers they still saw queries on their dns provider, and there is no real way to s

Free AnyCast DNS

I am hoping to build my own loadbalancing eventually via PowerDNS + a GeoIP db, or via Nginx + HAProxy (to including handling multisite SSL) ... like I said, a "hope."

And LEA wrote a freedns provider list, you may want to check it out.

Do you mean divide user request to the nearest server by the decision of DNS?

I'm looking into setting up a basic load balancer (or at least regional instances), I know I could setup some DNS servers on spare LEB's and do it for free but I'm trying to avoid the hassle and poten

Resolved, The issues, DNS Failover slaves was not setup completely.

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@Francisco thank you.but it's just a DNS service, which need UDP open, like zoneedit.

Basically, they're connected in a way that the Web Servers talk with the DNS server and the MySQL server only accepts connections from the Web Servers etc. The MySQL server isn't that well set up so

2 of my geographically separated VPSs that have had excellent uptime that host my DNS decided to go down at the same time today. Thankfully I had a tertiary DNS server (Image)

Now, the server held up pretty well, all of the uptime monitors did not report any failures. But I had some spare time, so I utilized some vps' I have, and it now runs in a round-robin DNS, webroot on

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