I wouldn't recommend switching IPs via DNS on attack, getting your unprotected VPS pounded on a regular basis will likely be a violation of your hosts TOS/AUP/get you in trouble.

What is the VPS used for? Solutions can vary based on your application. If your clients access the service using a domain name, you can get a DNS hosting with failover and add the DDoS protected VPS's

it's more like cloudns or dnsmadeeasy as far as I recall - signed up an account months ago never used it cos I went the self-hosted route for my DNS in the end ,,

They're great but I still prefer Cloudflare for my dns because of it's speed.

May be just replace slow Google DNS to something else.

May be just replace slow Google DNS to something else.

Smart DNS forwarder might be what you are looking for, unblock youku, when it works, does exactly that

I don't need any DNS server, since I am hosting it myself. I also don't need any email or hosting plans that come with the domains, I simply need an API where I can register them. No need for a WHMCS

@jvndar Thanks for such a detailed response. I was looking for someone who can give me his experience. Even right now I have a backup server on Vultr with DO and I do a DNS level load balancing. I am

For $10/month unmetered I think it is a reasonably good value. I've seen perfect uptime for about 6 months straight minus some self-inflicted reboots. There may have been a couple of minor burps one

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Maybe get AmazonLightsail Instances for the front end in a round robin DNS configuration and use Amazon RDS on the backend. Thus you can scale up RDS for holiday demand. Then scale it back down. De

Well I just gave VestaCP a try in a docker container and I must say that despite the nice informative panel, it does too much more than what I really need since it supposes I will install a DNS, mail,

bypass-dhcp" push "dhcp-option DNS 8.8.8.8" push "dhcp-option DNS 8.8.4.4" ifconfig 10.9.0.1 10.9.0.2 push "route 10.9.0.1 255.255.255.255&q

broadcast 192.0.2.255 gateway 192.0.2.1 dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4iface br0 inet6 static bridge_ports eth0 bridge_stp off pre-up modprobe ipv6 address 2001:DB8::2 netmask

I'd go with namecheap. They are quite cheap or at least not overpriced, offer free DNS management & whois protectio and I've used them for years without any problem.

You can either get a third small vps just for monitoring and dns to move your visitors from IH's vps (if it gets down) to your backup vps.

(all include DNS hosting with domain registration)

Yes, I am quite certain GoDaddy still provides free DNS management when you purchase a domain through them (registration or transfer).