MrVault
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Best registrar for cheap dns control
I've been a Godaddy user for years for mainly a couple reasons: easy to use DNS control of all different record types, account executive features (a lot of my clients have this and they retain control but grant me access to maintain their records), and affordability (due to coupons only).
for many reasons I am leaving them, but would like to maintain at least the first two reasons if at the same price or better than Godaddy. Can anyone make recommendations? I need to be able set my own TTL values, update the TXT record, etc and know it won't take 48 hours for people to see the changes. For whatever reason godaddy's changes always seemed to propagate quickly.
I should add that I use them as a registrar only. I have my hosted services with other places so that I can move between them easily without them retaining too much control.
for many reasons I am leaving them, but would like to maintain at least the first two reasons if at the same price or better than Godaddy. Can anyone make recommendations? I need to be able set my own TTL values, update the TXT record, etc and know it won't take 48 hours for people to see the changes. For whatever reason godaddy's changes always seemed to propagate quickly.
I should add that I use them as a registrar only. I have my hosted services with other places so that I can move between them easily without them retaining too much control.
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Write that's more than double what I pay now. Of can't afford them four all my domains. Anyone under $10/year?
I use a generic (ukreg, actually) but retain full control of the dns records; to support this, I have a couple of vpcs at two hosting centers at different points in the word (one in germany and one in england) at around 10ukp/month for each; there is glue from my "primary" domain pointing at the two ips, and glue for a couple of secondary domains pointing (one each) at the two hosts. I use the primary domain record for the primary (either ns1 or ns2, roughly equally) and the secondary is from a secondary domain (in case the primary glue should fail for some weird reason).
Each vpc is a linux box running bind 9 and serving all domains; I have full control over all the records, can refresh at a second's notice, and can set TTLs to suit my needs. I can also use the boxes for other stuff, although they don't have much disk storage (so one also hosts email for some domains, and there are a couple of small websites spread on both for redundancy)
Its probably overkill for the fairly small number of domains I manage, but its not a great deal of money and gives me fine control over the solution.
Each vpc is a linux box running bind 9 and serving all domains; I have full control over all the records, can refresh at a second's notice, and can set TTLs to suit my needs. I can also use the boxes for other stuff, although they don't have much disk storage (so one also hosts email for some domains, and there are a couple of small websites spread on both for redundancy)
Its probably overkill for the fairly small number of domains I manage, but its not a great deal of money and gives me fine control over the solution.
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Wow Dave. Yeah that is beyond what I'm trying to do. This is more of a preferred registrar question for dns management. I'm not going the route of controlling any hardware, etc. Thanks though. Sounds fun.
ah well, when I last used them, ukreg had issues supporting some of the newer features of dns (such as the microsoft extensions used for service location and sip) but otherwise offered a good, solid service.
I haven't used their dns hosting for years though, so couldn't tell you if that is still true.
I haven't used their dns hosting for years though, so couldn't tell you if that is still true.
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thanks kevin. question: I see that many are now basing pricing on number of queries. I use godady. how do I determine what my number of queries are?
Well, my thinking is that if you want really cheap DNS, you never need to worry about the # of queries, because there is a really outrageous quantity available at even the lowest price point. If you're getting hundreds of thousands of hits per month, I guess you can afford moving up to the $60 plan.
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thanks. I'll check them out. I also heard of amazon route 53 and namecheap. any thoughts on those?
No, I have never heard of those.
www.dyn.com
If you use the Advanced version of the web interface then you see all of the DNS record info.
Cost is about $30 / year.