Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by dentarg 4212 days ago
Not that I have any reliable info, but what I've heard, DNS Made Easy is a pretty stable and established DNS provider.

They brag about "99.9999% uptime history" at http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/technology/.

Though they doesn't seem as innovative and nice as DNSimple. Really hope things work out for DNSimple (really like the idea of their beta feature GitHub sync).
2 comments
stevekemp 4212 days ago
How does their beta-feature with github work? I can't find any obvious link and it seems frustratingly close to something I offer over at https://dns-api.com/ ..

(I wrap Amazon's route53 with DNS entries read from github/gitbucket/similar.)

link
zuccs 4212 days ago
And link to their Git support is here: http://support.dnsimple.com/articles/github-sync/ (if only DNS wasn't down..)
link
stevekemp 4211 days ago
Interesting thanks.

An interesting/custom choice to use JSON, and real github integration rather than using hooks as I did.

link
zuccs 4212 days ago
Can you use custom nameservers with your service?
link
EwanToo 4211 days ago
AWS Route 53 has added vanity DNS in the last few weeks, so you can make your DNS servers appear to be ns0.yourdomain.com rather than ns153.awsdomain.com (or whatever)

However, making your DNS servers to be responsible for serving their own DNS is a bit of an extra complexity and risk that no customer will ever care about..

link
zuccs 4211 days ago
Nice. Got a link for this one?
link
EwanToo 4210 days ago
It was oddly snuck into the private DNS announcement

http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/route-53-update-private-dns-...

"You can create generic "white label" name servers such as ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com, use them in your delegation set, and point them to your actual Route 53 name servers."

link
stevekemp 4211 days ago
When you upload a new zone it will be assigned a set of nameservers - four. You can't choose what they are in advance, and you can't specify the TLDs. So you might end up with "ns-1933.awsdns-49.co.uk.", "ns-1109.awsdns-10.org.", or similar.

Does that answer the question? I'm a little hazy on what you're actually asking.

link
toomuchtodo 4212 days ago
Old DnsMadeEasy customer here (used them for several years before moving to AWS). They were rock solid. We used them for hosting DNS for major cruise lines (fancy, very fancy ones), as well as other large Fortune 500 clients.

Their interface is pretty bad, but the backend is hardy.

link