All of them offer a cheap + reliable vps which is ideal for DNS servers.

I need to deploy (at least) 2 DNS servers since I need the flexibility of running DNS myself rather than relying on third party providers.

@shovenose - with DNS we have 1.5 times more than CloudFlare, with Hydra the plan is for 5 locations total in 2014 and depending from customer feedback maybe more in 2015

You could use a DNS that has a Round robin feature

DNS is part of the job - and it is something no-tech people have - at least - a picture of.

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I'm wondering who invented the term "DNS based ddos protection" or does this technique even exist?...

Looks like I have a new DNS server in Florida

Please make sure that you have thoroughly cleaned your DNS and browser cache and allow a few extra hours, you should be fine after then. It's a matter of DNS resolution propagation.

OUR CLIENT AREA HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY MOVED TO ANOTHER SERVER. IF YOU ARE SEEING THIS MESSAGE, YOUR COMPUTER'S DNS RESOLVERS ARE STILL CACHED TO THE OLD SERVER AND YOU NEED TO FLUSH YOUR DNS CACHE. If

i have never been one to file many support tickets, but in the first 3 months alone i probably filed at least 20, ranging from firewall config problems, extremely slow web server performance (current

So not service impacting issues. My reverse DNS ticket took 16 hours or so but still less than 24 hours and I have an open ticket that they have escalated to their Net Ops team for some latency I h

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Every KVM Plan comes with FREE cpanel DNS Service. Its FREE so you can order it after KVM plan and just replace your IP in the template. Easy setup for subdomians and addon domains.

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I have said DNS based Protection where are you getting the GRE Tunnel from? This has nothing to do with this discussion.

1) DNS points your record to their reverse proxy server

But this whole discussion was about actually DDoS protection not how to hide behind cloudflare's DNS. Which you can't be truly secure on.

We changed DNS so it could be that it hasn't updated for you yet.

* Having non-proxied DNS records pointing at the same server (easy to defend against)