I went through a similar research, though my own DNS service is on a much smaller scale. You may want to investigate X4B Anycast IPs https://www.x4b.net/protection/prices with GRE tunnels https://www.

Looking to build a global DNS cluster for a web hosting provider using Anycast. Not big enough to justify the expense of a /24 or two as it's a niche provider, but they also don't want to outsource DN

The only issue is that they weren't able to transfer the IPv6 range to the new VPS, just the IPv4 address. That was a bit annoying, but I reduced the DNS TTL for my domains on these servers in prepara

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Have you tried just hosting on your home PC? I did that as well for a while. Cheaper and if ip moves just change DNS records. All of us are close by anyway so it gets best latency. I'd like to get a h

Btw I use mail-in-a-box self hosted. Extremely easy to setup and all you need is a rDNS on your domain and they suggest a subdomain such as box.example.com. Greatest part is they include a dns server

I don’t love oracles interface for management either. They worked for me however as unlike one or two other options that also offered free compute, I wasn’t geographically restricted with Oracle, or a

Not really "hosted", but lasty night I finally managed to get certbot working for wildcard domains using DNS challenges updated via TSIG. In the process I reminded myself that my hat

I'm now at 1000 comments, that was hard I need a beer, hope I get thr trial so I can set up my new primary DNS

It's primary purpose will be as a primary dns, but it would be better if it had one terabyte of bandwidth,

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I normally run with an additional layer of VMs, and I name these as function-provider or function-location, e.g. dns-hyb, haproxy-hyb etc.

Old domains didn't come with DNS, you had to ticket in and I'd create a free DirectAdmin account that was basically DNS only. That was the old setup. The ns1/ns2 were just placeholders and not working