[gabemart]

Can anyone recommend a cheap DNS service that does geographic-based load distribution? I know that Route53 offers something like this, but AFAIK it's only designed for products hosted on Amazon's platforms.

I've heard that geographic-based DNS has something of a bad reputation, but I think it would be a very good fit for a side project I'm working on.

[jread]

Check out http://nsone.net - newer service with a unique approach to geo/load balancing/failover using user defined rulesets (filter chains and data feeds).

[jdub]

You can do latency based load balancing to non-AWS endpoints with Route 53 -- the limitation is that you have to associate those endpoints with an AWS region. If your endpoints are not anywhere near an AWS region, you're stuck. Otherwise fine!

[ing33k]

Rackspace Cloud DNS http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/dns/

[zimbatm]

DNSMadeEasy for $30/year

[tigerente]

That's for their DNS Small Business Plan only, plus $55 per Domain per Month for Geo-DNS (http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/home/compare/)