DNS Domain Management Service?

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Good day,

Recently am looking for DNS management for my domains.

I looked at Google Cloud DNS but wanted to make sure if the product is correct for my needs.
I have 3 domains(domain1.com, domain2.com ,domain3.com).
The domain will have subdomains pointed to different IP addresses.
server1.domain1.com
server2.domain1.com
server3.domain1.com
.......
For Web will point to the actual website, for mail must point to the mail server etc.
Currently am using Website DNS to point to the domains, but coming little problematic maintaining it,so with API can just automated the task. Also when my server down, the rest all dies:(.

Now I wanted to know if my logic is correct.
The pricing here shows https://developers.google.com/cloud-dns/pricing (Assume R10 per $)
3 domains will be the zones, after that I can created multiple records on that zone.
R2.00 per domain + the queries only? Or R2.00 per record created?
Let say made 43 A records, 3 mx records,8CName records and max queries is 3 000 000. The cost is R6(zones) + R6 for the queries(total R12)?


I looked at godaddy premium dns and dyndns also, any better suggestion?
Also do you know any reliable dns management?

Requirements:
Uptime 99.99% on monthly bases.
Be able to change ttl,add, delete or remove records via an API.
Be able to point a subdomain to my dynamic ip(mypc.domain2.com). I will manually update the ip record via a api call.
Budget < R500.

Thanks,
 
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Dark Agent said:
Good day,

Recently am looking for DNS management for my domains.

I looked at Google Cloud DNS but wanted to make sure if the product is correct for my needs.
I have 3 domains(domain1.com, domain2.com ,domain3.com).
The domain will have subdomains pointed to different IP addresses.
server1.domain1.com
server2.domain1.com
server3.domain1.com
.......
For Web will point to the actual website, for mail must point to the mail server etc.
Currently am using Website DNS to point to the domains, but coming little problematic maintaining it,so with API can just automated the task. Also when my server down, the rest all dies:(.

Now I wanted to know if my logic is correct.
The pricing here shows https://developers.google.com/cloud-dns/pricing (Assume R10 per $)
3 domains will be the zones, after that I can created multiple records on that zone.
R2.00 per domain + the queries only? Or R2.00 per record created?
Let say made 43 A records, 3 mx records,8CName records and max queries is 3 000 000. The cost is R6(zones) + R6 for the queries(total R12)?


I looked at godaddy premium dns and dyndns also, any better suggestion?
Also do you know any reliable dns management?

Requirements:
Uptime 99.99% on monthly bases.
Be able to change ttl,add, delete or remove records via an API.
Be able to point a subdomain to my dynamic ip(mypc.domain2.com). I will manually update the ip record via a api call.
Budget < R500.

Thanks,
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Hi,

Try DNS Made Easy www.dnsmadeeasy.com.They are experts in DNS.I've been trialing them out and its a top quality product.I read somewhere on there website about API stuff
 
Most hosting providers will hand out free DNS. Unless you have fancy requirements, like anycast, try cloudns.com.

They offer 3 free zones, with unlimited queries. Premium is also not bad with them.
 
Hanks said:
Hi,

Try DNS Made Easy www.dnsmadeeasy.com.They are experts in DNS.I've been trialing them out and its a top quality product.I read somewhere on there website about API stuff
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Thanks, I looked at them. They have RestAPI with the Business package :).


nand said:
Most hosting providers will hand out free DNS. Unless you have fancy requirements, like anycast, try cloudns.com.

They offer 3 free zones, with unlimited queries. Premium is also not bad with them.
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Thanks, Currently using hosting provider dns, only problem is single point of failure and sending 100 000 request per day on a shared server is bad for others.

I think you meant cloudns.net. Even cheaper and offer 1000% uptime and unlimited for $5.
Whats the catch? (I see they have unicast over anycast but that not a major issue).

Solitude said:
I use NameCheap's FreeDNS. I don't know how good it is but haven't had any problems.
https://www.namecheap.com/domains/freedns.aspx

*edit*

I read now about your API requirements. I have no idea if NameCheap offers that. Probably not.
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Thanks, Seems to have no API.


Brandon said:
Check out sitelutions
Read about their API here
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Thanks, I read about it, they require membership and premium dns. Well the cost is less then <R100 which is great. Only problem, you have to transfer domain to them. Each domain is handle seperately. There maintain there own dns servers(only 5 dns servers and all in USA on the same backbone).

DrJohnZoidberg said:
Amazon's Route 53. Works great.
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Thanks, Very tempting. Can you have unlimited records on a zone or you pay per record?
 
Dark Agent said:
Thanks, Very tempting. Can you have unlimited records on a zone or you pay per record?
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You pay per "hosted zone" as Amazon calls it, which is your domain name. It's 50c per domain for the first 25. Then you pay per billion queries, like 4c per billion. It's a very fair pricing model.

Here is the pricing: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/

You have a bunch of other options like failover and load-balancing and they just recently started selling domain names too, so you can do it all from the AWS console.

Here is the api documentation: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
You pay per "hosted zone" as Amazon calls it, which is your domain name. It's 50c per domain for the first 25. Then you pay per billion queries, like 4c per billion. It's a very fair pricing model.

Here is the pricing: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/

You have a bunch of other options like failover and load-balancing and they just recently started selling domain names too, so you can do it all from the AWS console.

Here is the api documentation: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
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Perfect Solution!

I read the faqs, Limit 10000 records which I not going to go even near 20 records per zone.
API is way better and safer then google gcloud sdk. I love geo location part the most.

In terms of cost its very cheap (from R17 - R50 max) plus got over 30 servers plus.

Thanks a million.
 
I finally moved everything over to Amazon. No downtime at all.
Best move ever!
Final step is to make a pretty UI that integrates pingdom and dns so can monitor/automated changes.
Thanks everyone for the replies.
 
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