[sashk]

My rule: provider should do single thing:

- Hosting provider - host sites

- vps/cloud provider - provide VMs

- domain registrar - domain related stuff, but not DNS

- dns provider - host dns

- second dns provider - host dns in case first dns provider fails

So many DNS outages recently and all my projects are up.

[copperx]

Does Amazon's Route 53 count as a DNS provider, or do you treat it a hosting provider?

[sashk]

For me - neither.

But if I'd be tied in into Amazon's cloud infrastructure, I would have to use many of their features going against my rules above.

[ludbb]

How do you apply your rules considering what's available today? Which services are you using? It sounds like it would be a big headache to orchestrate the automation among all these different providers.