I used to use domain.com's DNS but making changes to it would sometimes take hours to take effect (clearing any local DNS caches I could of course). I then switched to Route53 which they say changes a

If only Rage4 is as cheap/cheaper than Amazon for high amount of DNS Queries. I paid 2 Euro last month just for hitting a little bit over 250k requests in ONE of my domains. I've moved my busy traffic

I can recall one significant issue with godaddy DNS over the years. I can't speak poorly about something that works. If godaddy does nothing else right, registration and DNS have to be where they shin

To use their proxying service you must have DNS with them.

We use cloudflare as it's very reliable and free of course. I don't see many situations you wouldn't want to use cloudflare over anything else. Namecheap's DNS is also good but would only use with Nam

I used cloudflare, godaddy, namecheap, and rage4. Right now I'm with dns.he.net They are all have 0 problem for me, but at the end, I like dns.he.net since it's very easy to control plus it's free.

CloudFlare offers faster DNS resolution time than Route53. However, DNS Made Easy is faster than both. If you can afford DME, go for it. Otherwise, CloudFlare will do the job for you.

Nobody actually host their own dns server? Any up/downsides?

Well in terms of network rage4 has 1.5 times the amount of POPs for their dns. (@gbshouse can confirm?)

The other issue is that I have a site that I really want to use CloudFlare's other services with, and from what I can tell, the only way to do that is to have the domain's DNS with CloudFlare.

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That is against DNS standards (Cloudflare doesn't care about keeping standards). You can however use pseudo aliasing on Route53.

* Google DNS (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4)

How about Rage4 DNS?

CloudFlare DNS seems to just work for me, never had a problem with it. I don't like that there are no AXFR options (though that may be hard to integrate when they're proxying your traffic via their ow

Also, you can take a look to Amazon Route53 for DNS management.

This. For free DNS I'd go with dns.he.net or cloudflare. I use Route53 for most of my sites though.

I have all of my domains with GoDaddy, and most of them have DNS there as well.

Rage4 Anycast DNS (with GeoDNS Support)

-Free Instant Reverse DNS