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Ask HN: Which DNS service/s outside of AWS to use?

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I'm on the look out for a new DNS provider which offers dynamic fail over and location based routing out side of route 53. Ultimately I'd like to have 2 such services to allow for redundancy in providers.

What solutions do you guys use?

Any wisdom is appreciated!

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After being with Dyn for 8+ years, this last week I moved from them to Amazon. The Dyn interface is chaotic - so bad I contemplated just reverting to hosting DNS myself in PowerDNS/Poweradmin (https://www.poweradmin.org/trac/).

I never had downtime issues with Dyn, and the performance was satisfactory. But I tried talking a coworker through updating our TXT/SPF record and told him he'd have to "stumble around until he found the right interface" - at that point I realized we deserved better.

The unbelievably terrible interface was a major factor in us moving our stuff from Netnames to Amazon.

Amazon Route53 is just ridiculously easy to use. Also, machine-controllable. Not as good as shadow primary, but second-best option and saves us so much frustration just doing stuff.

Though if there were someone who was as non-sucky to use as Amazon, I'd be interested too.

If you really want AXFR check out Route53d http://code.google.com/p/route53d/. Acts as an AXFR to route53 API proxy. The route 53 sample code also has import/export to bind zone file format.

Never used it but I believe Rackspace offer is pretty similar to the AWS one : http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/dns/

Perhaps Point? (https://pointhq.com/) Don't use them myself, but I've heard good things.

DNSPark is very nice with great redundancy and very low prices.

http://dnspark.net/

I think zerigo do have all that although I only use their non geo service. They have an API to automate changes.

Went with Dyn - thanks.

Route 53 is nice but its concerning to have hosting and DNS with the same provider.

My company uses Rackspace with Cloud Sites with their DNS. Very few issues and great customer service.

Can't go wrong with Dyn.

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