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Ask YC: What DNS provider do you use ?

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I'm looking for a DNS provider that will provide me with the ability to set a low TTL value for my domain but not charge me the earth.

I don't mind paying a monthly fee as long as it's reasonable, but the provider has to be rock solid (i.e. very reliable).

Does anyone have any recommendations ?

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I run EveryDNS and am looking for an ALL-STAR PHP/MySQL hacker who wants to help take it over. You must be in San Francisco.

This is a simple business that can easily grow to make $1mm a year (and with some work, $5mm/year). I will help you understand how to grow and run a business. I am focused on OpenDNS these days and EveryDNS has been neglected (though we added AAAA support on Saturday night).

In addition to the business side of things, I will also teach you about networking, routing, BGP, and every other aspect of running a world-class global operation that provides a necessary service to the Internet.

Contact me directly -- david at ulevitch dot com.

everydns rocks!

david rocks!

he let me crash at his place a while ago.

a) Your error messages are not noticeable enough - they're way too far from the register/login area.

b) Why not let people use e-mail address as username (aka why limit usernames)?

Because I am focused on building OpenDNS (profitable, hiring, etc).

EveryDNS is a usability nightmare. The service is TOP NOTCH and RELIABLE but the website needs an overhaul. I cry myself to sleep every night thinking about it. :-)

http://everydns.net

Great track record (total of 1 hour of downtime due to DDoS for past 4 years). Nice features. Free, but don't forget to donate.

Real hackers run their own hand-coded DNS server.

Seriously, though, I run a DNS server on the same machine that runs my [small] web server, etc. There is an argument to be made that you need failover machines for DNS, but my counter-argument is that if my web server machine is dead, no amount of DNS redundancy is going to fix anything.

For a website only, that's not a big deal. However if you also have email for that domain, mail will immediately start bouncing when DNS goes down.

http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/

it's reasonable.

I've been using DNS Made Easy for a while. I find the prices are very good if you have a bunch of domains to host. I'm using five nameservers for each domain and that seems like plenty of redundancy.

I've been using zoneedit.com

Very kludgy site, but it gets the job done for free.

Same here

editdns.net - it's free for basic features (and donation supported for a full account). Siple interface that doesn't get in your way. And nameservers in US and EU. Have Neva had any issues since I started (about a year ago)

I use DynDns; they do yearly fees of around $60 (depending on what you want) and its very solid. They also have great customer support, so its easy to ask questions at any time.

I use EveryDNS. Never had any problems, and even donated.

I've been using editdns: http://www.editdns.net/

Its free, and has worked very well for me over the past year.

I use primarily my own DNS servers (linux/bind), but also some addresses uses domainmonger.com and godaddy.com DNS.

Why do you need low ttl's? Can you clarify the problem you are trying to solve?

Yes - SPOF on some hardware means I'd like to be able to make DNS edits on the fly to redirect users to a status page in the event of a problem.

We run our own using MyDNS. It has a few bugs, but by and large it works.

UltraDNS

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