If hosting your own DNS is too difficult try app.dnsmanager.io

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directnic won't forward url if dns is not hosted by them.

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DNS:

From my own experience DNS business is hard, harder than regular webhosting. If you add all the anycast networking on top plus hours of development to be unique featurewise you need to like it. Good l

Enable CloudFlare with flexib!e or full (without the strict option) SSL, assuming that directnic still redirects the domain even when not using their DNS

Yeah it's a fork of Obervium and yes it can monitor SSL through the Nagios plugin. Not sure about DNS.

If you have a decent domain registrar, chances are, their dns is more than good enough. There's not much reason to use cloudflare for the dns alone, unless you want their cheap renewal rates. I've rea

You definitely want fast responses. 60 minutes is a long time, most people do like 5 minutes now. DNS recursors also need to spend the time requesting data from the your resolver, which is also the ti

Would anyone know of something similar to PHPServerMonitor, Statping, or Cabot that can also monitor SSL and DNS? Can LibreNMS do that?

And there is always the possibility to have a 3rd or a 4th NS or to use some decent DNS service provider if really needed.

Based on good information provided by you and other members, I'm considering whether to limit CF to DNS, or keep non-ecommerce sites as well, or completely ditch it all together.

@bikegremlin

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doesn't rack up a huge bill or end up with your dns being shut down.

DNS discussion is always interesting, so lets say you have a record that has a TTL of 60 minutes, do you really need a DNS server with less then 20ms response?

It seems to work pretty well and to offer really fast results in most of the world. I'd like to ear of good alternatives as well. ClouDNS seems nice, but I didn't try them yet.

Is CF not a good option for DNS alone?

Another often overlooked performance factor is something quite different, the DNS. Because that very often is the one factor that really defines the user experience. More often than not poor DNS is th