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Recommend Hosted DNS provider for 2016!

mehargagsmehargags Member
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Hello Everyone...

I've gone through some old posts but wanted to take fresh opinion on good hosted DNS solutions and recommendations to this date. Cloudlfare is out of question for its known instability for Asian region & Rage 4 had its own downers, wanna know whats it like now.

Google Cloud DNS & Amazon Route 53 are vouched for... but the billing is little too complicated for me to understand.

PLease shed some light!

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  • perennateperennate Member, Host Rep
    edited January 2016

    What problems did you have with Rage 4?

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  • Awmusic12635Awmusic12635 Member, Host Rep
    edited January 2016

    I have had 0 issues with Cloudflare's DNS in the last 4 years.

    Some other parts of their product may have had some issues but their DNS has been rock solid for me

  • SilentFarterSilentFarter Member

    My recollection is that Incapsula offers a free plan that's similar to Cloudflare and includes DNS hosting.

  • nowprovisionnowprovision Member

    Cloudflare instability in Asia region? Can you elaborate, also if are you referring to them proxying traffic, I believe you can just use their DNS and point directly at your own IPs.

  • jarjar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran
    edited January 2016

    I would challenge the notion of DNS instability anywhere with CloudFlare. I work for a reasonable sized company that uses their DNS for their primary website. I think you should reconsider that exclusion.

    Thanked by 5aglodek sin mehargags Jonchun inthecloudblog
  • utamautama Member

    CMIIW Incapsula still doesn't offer DNS hosting.

  • J1021J1021 Member

    @jarland said:
    I would challenge the notion of DNS instability anywhere with CloudFlare. I work for a reasonable sized company that uses their DNS for their primary website. I think you should reconsider that exclusion.

    Actually, when I was trying out DO's DNS offering I found it to be a little slow. For a CloudFlare hop that's ~1ms away, responses of ~200ms aren't really that sound.

  • alexnjhalexnjh Member

    Hurricane Electric DNS

  • sinsin Member

    @jarland said:
    I would challenge the notion of DNS instability anywhere with CloudFlare. I work for a reasonable sized company that uses their DNS for their primary website. I think you should reconsider that exclusion.

    I agree, I have around 40 or so sites on Cloudflare's free DNS and it's always been really fast and stable for me.

  • namhuynamhuy Member

    I haved use cloudflare, he, and namecheap free dns, all works fine without any problem. I used Route 53 for sometimes but I don't really want to pay for dns hosting so I'm sticking with cloudflare and he for now.

  • Ole_JuulOle_Juul Member

    Just some notes, for whatever they're worth. From the browsing perspective, I've seen sites get slower when they deploy Cloudflare. Perhaps that's location specific - I'm in Western Canada. An example of a failed employment would be TheRegister.co.uk. However, one thing that is always a drag if you expect traffic from privacy buffs, Cloudflare will throw up unsolvable captchas to block them if they're using Tor, which an increasing number of people are these days.

  • namhuynamhuy Member

    Ole_Juul said: throw up unsolvable captchas

    You can adjust "security level" or disable it in cloudflare panel.

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  • Ole_JuulOle_Juul Member

    namhuy said: You can adjust "security level" or disable it in cloudflare panel.

    Good to know, thanks. But of course the person wanting to access the site can't do that. In any case now I know what to tell ElReg when I write to tell them that I can't link to their articles any more.

  • GM2015GM2015 Member
    edited January 2016

    I don't use cloudflare to route my traffic through their system. Their dns is good though.

    Ole_Juul said: Good to know, thanks. But of course the person wanting to access the site can't do that. In any case now I know what to tell ElReg when I write to tell them that I can't link to their articles any more.

    I see theregister turned off routing via cloudflare, but they still use CF for DNS.

    ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4000
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;theregister.co.uk.     IN  NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
theregister.co.uk.  86400   IN  NS  gerald.ns.cloudflare.com.
theregister.co.uk.  86400   IN  NS  dahlia.ns.cloudflare.com.

    curl -I theregister.co.uk
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2016 13:52:07 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Connection: keep-alive
Server: Apache/2.4.10 (Debian)
Location: http://www.theregister.co.uk/
X-Reg-BOFH: asd1234
X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett

    curl -I https://digitalocean.com

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: **cloudflare-nginx**
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2016 13:52:31 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: __cfduid=yumcookies; expires=Sun, 08-Jan-17 13:52:31 GMT; path=/; domain=.digitalocean.com; HttpOnly
Location: https://www.digitalocean.com/
CF-RAY: cfray-wut

    curl -I http://lowendtalk.com
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2016 13:54:08 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: __cfduid=cookies-man; expires=Sun, 08-Jan-17 13:54:08 GMT; path=/; domain=.lowendtalk.com; HttpOnly
Location: http://www.lowendtalk.com/
Server: **cloudflare-nginx**
CF-RAY: moar-x-rays

    Ole_Juul said: An example of a failed employment would be TheRegister.co.uk

    Ole_Juul said: However, one thing that is always a drag if you expect traffic from privacy buffs, Cloudflare will throw up unsolvable captchas to block them if they're using Tor, which an increasing number of people are these days.

    You're right though about captchas, google makes them unsolveable surely in a certain %-age. Fuckers.

  • dedicadosdedicados Member
    edited January 2016

    try https://www.cloudns.net/

    also there was a website from a user here which tested DNS servers, anyone remember it?

    edit:

    found it, is http://www.dnsperf.com/ from @jimaek

  • mehargagsmehargags Member

    Well I know cloudflare is good at DNS, but for my east Asian clients it has been a nightmare whenever I tried to put them behind CF. However, I will give it a try again with all Caching and Security turned off and check if resolution is flawless.

    The other Service I'm really inclined towards is Yandex, which offer upto 50 Zones hosting and extend it upto 100 after a support ticket, which should be fine by me.

    Another thing I wanted to check was, not being a DNS expert, which services allow Vanity Nameservers so I can point my domains to my ns1/ns2.mehargags.com and then my ns1/ns2.mehargags.com "relay" the call to these actual DNSs. I hope this is called Vanity or is it Child Name Servers ?

    Yandex doesn't support Vanity... does CF allow that? or any other provider ?

    I really don't mind a small yearly fee... like $30-$50/yr or something... if the service is really pro. All I want is to keep to keep DNS zones off from any of my VPS/Server providers

  • perennateperennate Member, Host Rep
    edited January 2016

    mehargags said: Another thing I wanted to check was, not being a DNS expert, which services allow Vanity Nameservers so I can point my domains to my ns1/ns2.mehargags.com and then my ns1/ns2.mehargags.com "relay" the call to these actual DNSs. I hope this is called Vanity or is it Child Name Servers ?

    Vanity nameserver just means you use a custom hostname for the nameserver. The IP address is still shared usually (so rDNS on the nameserver wouldn't match forward DNS), but could be dedicated depending on the provider.

    You should be able to relay the call from your server like you described for any DNS provider. But then you might as well host your own DNS. What you really want is no relaying to be involved, just to have custom hostname, possibly with dedicated IP. Rage4 supports setting your own NS records for free, and dedicated IP is 10 EUR/mo.

  • WSCallumWSCallum Member

    You can use CloudFlare DNS without using the CDN, just unclick the cloud so that it's grey.

  • KrisKris Member

    DNS Made Easy

    $29.95/year - unbeatable anycast. 5m queries per month and I've never gone near the limit.

    http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/pricing/

    Thanked by 2mehargags Dylan
  • perennateperennate Member, Host Rep

    Kris said: http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/pricing/

    I like how it says 0% uptime SLA on http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/services/ if you have JS disabled :P

    Thanked by 3GM2015 Kris doghouch
  • KrisKris Member

    perennate said: I like how it says 0% uptime SLA on http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/services/ if you have JS disabled :P

    No JS? No uptime for you!

    Really though, I use the $59.95/year plan and have unbeatable DNS.

    I avoided a shitty Christmas by switching out DNS to TTL of 5, and used Google Flush DNS to quickly get sites back up that were previously at Linode.

    I don't come near my 10m/month and for $59.95 per year it's "set it and forget it" for 25 domains / 1k records.

    https://pulse.turbobytes.com/results/5691ca20ecbe401eb100038a/ - Anycast done right

  • ericlsericls Member, Patron Provider

    cloudflare +1

    The DNS records take effect instantly!

  • CrabCrab Member

    dnsmadeeasy.com

  • hdpixelhdpixel Member

    I agree with @Kris. DNS Made Easy is an excellent provider. China friendly

  • CasterCaster Member

    +1
    DNS.he.net

    check their ping worldwide it's fairly low.

    Thanked by 1mehargags
  • nixcomnixcom Member

    +1 for dns.he.net as well

    Thanked by 1mehargags
  • mehargagsmehargags Member
    edited January 2016

    Any Idea on Paid PRO plans from HE.net ? how much they cost ? worth it ?
    I need to host around 120-150 Zones right now, now idea of the number of queries per month.

    Also is there a "BULK EDITOR" with HE.net where I can put in all my DNS Zones from the previous host ?

  • simonindiasimonindia Member

    +1 for CF and HE.net and NS1

    if you have some crazy amount of zones (sites) then providers like dnsmadeeasy,NS1(paid),cloud dns,Rage4,Route53 come it to play

    pls consider this list if you pay for DNS hosting

    http://www.solvedns.com/dns-comparison/

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  • namhuynamhuy Member
    edited January 2016

    mehargags said: Well I know cloudflare is good at DNS, but for my east Asian clients it has been a nightmare whenever I tried to put them behind CF. However, I will give it a try again with all Caching and Security turned off and check if resolution is flawless.

    My website has been behind cloudflare with caching & security on, I can access it just fine while I was in China & Vietnam.

    I guess most Asian's IP are dirty, that's why Asian people having trouble access websites behind cloudflare.

  • doghouchdoghouch Member
    edited January 2016

    @mehargags said:
    Hello Everyone...

    I've gone through some old posts but wanted to take fresh opinion on good hosted DNS solutions and recommendations to this date. Cloudlfare is out of question for its known instability for Asian region & Rage 4 had its own downers, wanna know whats it like now.

    Google Cloud DNS & Amazon Route 53 are vouched for... but the billing is little too complicated for me to understand.

    PLease shed some light!

    Personally, I find Google Hosted DNS reliable (100% SLA), but is (unfortunately) expensive (I guess it's what you have to pay for reliability). I'm fine with Rage4 for personal stuff, but when it goes for business, Google would be +1 ;)

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