Recommendation Wanted for Managed DNS service
I am looking for a recommendation for a managed DNS service. For some years I have used a managed DNS provide by DYNECT (dynect.net). This had a graphical interface and access to all features and is suitble for professional usage.
DYNECT was the premium service offered by DynDNS but they have been (some years back now) bought out by Oracle. I have been given notice that the DYNECT service will be ending probably this year. It have proven impossible to engage with Oracle as to their replacement service.
What would you recommend - I see references in earlier question to Clouddns (www.cloudns.net) and Amazon Route 53 and Google Cloud service.
I would prefer a GUI to having to use a CLI (given that I only need to make changes infrequently).
David Johnson, CD
I use cloudflare for DNS and so does EE
you can also use noip or gandi for example. the best choice may depend on the country. most isps offer business services that cover dns, answer the phone when needed and it might proove convenient to rely on one of them. orange business services would be one example
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i would never use ionos
godaddy was usable last time i checked
no idea regarding 123reg
gandi used to have an awful ui but they now have something rather nice and usable and nice features to delegate admin to third parties without sharing account credentials. they always had stable and working server. they grew as one of the major registrars and dns hosts worldwide so i am pretty sure they have servers in the uk. and i am not affiliated with them in any way nor have any sympathy for them.
noip has a simple and straightforwards interface and very competitive prices.
godaddy was usable last time i checked
no idea regarding 123reg
gandi used to have an awful ui but they now have something rather nice and usable and nice features to delegate admin to third parties without sharing account credentials. they always had stable and working server. they grew as one of the major registrars and dns hosts worldwide so i am pretty sure they have servers in the uk. and i am not affiliated with them in any way nor have any sympathy for them.
noip has a simple and straightforwards interface and very competitive prices.
if you want support, obs has a nice one but i would not vouch for the quality of their english support. they do have offices in uk though.
and obviously, if you have an infrastructure, you can always host your own servers which is much more trivial than it seems.
i must warn you that migrating second level domains take a while and may require multiple attempts mostly due to buggy migration procedures and lagging whois information so you really should start early and definitely by the end of the year. it may get worse when the last clients will all want to migrate at the same time.
ionis is a rebranded 1&1, 123reg and Godaddy domain registrar. Domain registrars and ISP's are known for their poor support for DNS
As for Cloudflare I have about 20 domains managed by them on their free plan.
As for Cloudflare I have about 20 domains managed by them on their free plan.
good to know
then as far as i know
ionos bought 1&1 but they actually existed long beforehand.
1&1 service degraded significantly since then.
some registrars do have good hosting plans and actually most dns pure players act as delegate registrars so i am unsure what your point is.
would you share experience with dns only hosting on cloudflare
then as far as i know
ionos bought 1&1 but they actually existed long beforehand.
1&1 service degraded significantly since then.
some registrars do have good hosting plans and actually most dns pure players act as delegate registrars so i am unsure what your point is.
would you share experience with dns only hosting on cloudflare
at the registrar for the domain simply set the NS records to the ones provided by cloudflare i.e. betty.cloudflare.com, adam.cloudflare.com
once things get updated, edit the records as required. never had an issue and it updates really quickly, no waiting 24 hours.
once things get updated, edit the records as required. never had an issue and it updates really quickly, no waiting 24 hours.