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Wondered why my site was spotty. I love Namecheap as a registrar, but I'm questioning now whether I should be using them as my DNS provider.

Any suggestions?

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I'm using DNS Made Easy for a few of my domains. There's a couple of good alternatives.

Second that. I don't use them currently, but have in the past. dnsmadeeasy are solid.

I can fully recommend Point (https://pointhq.com/), haven't had a single problem yet and support thus far has been very good. The web interface is easy to use and they offer both an API as well as the ability to export zone files.

My only gripe would be that the claimed support response times as well as the 'call-me-back' button don't work as advertised.

There doesn't seem to be any sort of information about their network, is it multicast? Geo distributed across the world? They mention "Access distributed nameservers across the UK and United States.", does that mean they have 1 VPS in each country serving DNS and that's it?

Seems like they have a nice UI but the lack of technical details would make me a bit wary of it.

I don't know why they still have that information there... The nameservers I use of them are in: Mountain View, US Dallas, US Amsterdam, The Netherlands Maidenhead, UK Asia Singapore Frankfurt, Germany Paris, France

And I know they have at least 5 more.

IMO, PointHQ's quality and value proposition dropped after they were bought out / restructured into the Copper.io brand. Plus the change in pricing peeved me quite a bit.

That's the only thing that bothered me too. I was sort of grandfathered into the pricing structure but who knows how long that will last. Ah well, plenty of alternatives if it does go to shit, as we can see in this thread.

Oh boy I should've knocked on wood. They emailed me today, the old plan is gone. Now I have to upgrade to $8/month, which is ridiculous compared to the alternatives.

Yup, I ran into the same thing about a month ago. I've since switched over to Route53 -- it's going to cost to $4/mn for my personal domains.

I moved to Point early this year after a power outage took my non-redundant and self-hosted DNS down - it was the first time it'd happened for several years but I wanted to avoid a repeat.

In May, Point received a DDoS that took all (or many?) of their nameservers down and they didn't communicate what was happening very well.

I moved back to self-hosting although, like others in this thread, I'd prefer to settle on using a few major players (Route53, Google, Cloudflare) to reduce the reliance on any one of them.

My NameCheap domains which are using CloudFlare do work perfectly, as well as domains which are using Yandex DNS.

Cloudflare it's free and works very well (you don't have to use their reverse proxy/cdn).

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