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by al_james 5884 days ago
Its a shame geo aware DNS hosting is always at a premium price point.

On a related note: dns.com sell packages based on number of dns queries per month. How would I work out how many I need? Obviously its not one per visitor. Does anyone know what the rough ratio is?
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andrewtj 5884 days ago
I'm building a DNS service at the moment. Geo-aware DNS won't be a launch feature but it is something I intend to add in the future. The implementation I'm looking at doing will allow for returning different record data based on country-code (as determined by Maxmind GeoIP) and will be configurable via both a web interface and JSON over HTTP API. I'd be interested to know what features you'd look for in a Geo-aware DNS service and what you'd expect to pay — if you could drop me note (see profile) it'd be much appreciated.
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nethergoat 5884 days ago
Good question. Really, it depends on the TTL... but that's not very helpful.

I checked the stats for one of our embedded apps, and I'm seeing a ratio of ~11 pageviews to 1 DNS query. That's with a 7.5 minute TTL. Clearly, your mileage may vary.

I'd be interested to know the ratio for a destination site with a longer TTL.

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