I suffered it this morning and IMHO it's not acceptable to have 5 different DNS servers and still experience downtime. I know it's a free service but...

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It's not the first time they have an outage - a year or three ago, their entire DNS went 'broken' for a day or so, and all zonefiles were empty - the DNS servers were up, they just wouldn't give out a

Mwahaha last time this happened I switched to my own DNS, one time was enough for me, and looks like it was the right choice.

It appears their DNS services are partially back online now, including a small change within the allowed zones per account...

The problem is purely with HE DNS, which went down earlier today. It's mostly back up, but ns1 is still down and ns5 is still slow. Since HE uses their own DNS service, their main site is affected als

Will try out mailinabox, setting up a Ubuntu server now. But, I have my other CentOS server up and running, with virtualmin setup. I have created the domain, and the e-mail user. I have updated my DNS

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No single-entity DNS provider will be more reliable than a distributed set (3 should be enough) of NSes spread by you over different and diverse (in locations/upstreams/ownership/jurisdiction) provide

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if you wanna have a list of other dns providers then take a look at http://www.dnsperf.com (created by @jimaek.)

Yup, you can have it just route the dns, no cloudflare reverse proxy, just make sure the cloud for the dns entry it gray not orange

I use Cloudflare, but I've heard good things about Rage4 DNS (https://rage4.com). You can get an unlimited (I believe) account from Prometeus at €12/year ( https://www.prometeus.net/billing/cart.php?a

Can you use Cloudflare DNS without its reverse proxy? I don't want my traffic routed on yet another hop.

Which DNS service do you recommend? I don't mind paying a few $. I want to avoid using a secondary dns server (to avoid manual synchronization of settings, which is rather not my idea of fun).

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The DNS is hosted outside the server (in this case godaddy.com)

Try add 'nameserver 208.67.222.222' and 'nameserver 208.67.220.220' beside google public dns.