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I don't believe so. ClouDNS is slightly worse, performance wise, but starts at 10 dollars. Also, for low amount of queries, AWS Route53 might be a decent option.
I have been using AWS Route53 for geodns, cheap with low volume ($0.70/million geodns requests/month). Gets pricey when adding failover monitoring, $2.75/mo for https monitoring of each host, so your 8 geo-distanced hosts alone would be $22/mo for monitoring+failover, but that is optional.
@MaxKVM, a few points:
Not bad at all. This why I love these forums.
We currently have our PowerDNS on BuyVM Anycast but will try this out too. Thanks!
@MaxKVM I see that you have all your DNS servers on BuyVM's network. This is perhaps not the best, considering resilience. You probably want to consider hosting DNS on multiple different AS.
Acknowledging that the scheme that I mentioned above would also have a SPOF at R53, in the event that R53 goes down (however unlikely), assuming you handle TTL and SOA record properly, you can immediately direct back to your own servers. You can even just change the www.maxkvm.com CNAME to point to a non-R53 record.
Yes, this is very clear - but thanks for making sure we know. As stated:
SPoF is not too much of a concern for the main website, but it can be important for resolving anything else on our network. If the Frantech Empire or (the smaller and weaker) AWS cloud go offline then we are probably offline as well anyway. This can be handled with the single CNAME for the www as you mentioned. Thanks again.
I have been using gDNSd 2.4 with geodns and auto failover from 8 locations for a few years. It has worked great. According to hetrixtools I show a 99.999% uptime on websites, even though the underling web servers are 98+% to 99.8% up. I made a simple panel to manage all the dns servers from one location for easy admin. I would be happy to point a domain at your locations for you to test. if you wish to discuss further PM me.
MaxKVM seems to have fixed this, shows $72 a year now, too bad.
The double annual discount was intended this morning but yes, that sale is finished now.
MaxKVM retains 70% discount coupon to be released in some day before Jan., my guess.
Hope so, I am waiting to catch that deal
I've already grabbed SKVM-4G, not sure if I can grab another magic deal, but this one is cool enough.
Damn...
I'm too hype with my new SKVM-4G-4CPU and didn't know that MaxKVM offers SKVM-4G for $39.50/year
so you paid $69 for 4c4g and envy my 2c4g, same hardisk same bandwidth for $39?
there will be plenty to order with 70% if you are patient till Jan 1.
Honestly, 2 cores of AMD EPYC and Singapore location are your unique feature.
Oh, I thought its SG.
But your offer is better tho if you add + 2core ( $3 )
It's ~$0.7 cheaper than mine hehe ✌
Looks like things are going wrong, website is down .
It's up, atleast for me now.
Thanks, that's really weird it doesn't answer to Google DNS . I've tried locally and on few remotes.
There could be a variety of reasons why it may have failed for Google DNS. But it is also rather curious that it worked for 9.9.9.9 (without EDNS0 support) but failed for 9.9.9.11 (with EDNS0 support). Also rather curious that with 208.67.220.220 (with EDNS0 support) and 9.9.9.9, traffic is sent to New York, while with 1.1.1.1 (without EDNS0 support), traffic is sent to Amsterdam. The lookup is from a machine in Europe.
This is from local unbound. So it would seem that the DNS server is not directing traffic to the closest endpoint.
Aha, looks like not all the instances are behaving the same way:
For someone who wants to get a bigger discount, today's code 12-23-2020 would be unprecedented, 65% on PKVM-6G, which originally $18/month w/o code, and now (with the code for today ONLY) $75.60 annually (you'll pay $70.85 actually if placing the order for one machine today).
PKVM-8G seems workable on this. Or maybe even bigger discount for the next coming two days.
Update
On PKVM-8G plan, it becomes 53.67% Recurring Discount, and produces a $130+ annual bill, relatively a small portion as compared to today's promo code, so if you wanna bigger memory, wait or maybe manually add a 2G add-on from the client area/panel with $3/month.
Oh, I thought those codes were only applicable to the SKVM products.
12-23-2020
PKVM-6G
65% Recurring Discount
$75.60 USD / Year or
$6.30 USD / Month
That's really a nice offer!
No. MaxKVM's promo page posted at the first page displays three main plans, the 2nd of which, in the middle is P series. I remember someone's interested in P series. Just cannot find the exact post here.
The Christmas/NY code doesn't work for PKVM-8G though.
The PKVM-8G is already on promotion, with code
ANNUAL8G
.Actually I think it's workable. Just not in that scale.
That's with the ANNUAL8G coupon. The order link came with the coupon, so it applied that coupon over the 12-23 coupon.
Oh, I see. @thedp @smallbibi
Then perhaps PKVM-8G will make its show tomorrow or the day after that.
This was a really nice deal tho,
I wish this has a Singapore location xD