[lug] DNS Registrar and DNS provider - recommendations?

[Bear Giles]

I've also heard good things about Gandi. I personally use AWS but that's
mostly since I have so much stuff there. I wish they had slightly better
integration with EC2 though - although that could easily be an oversight on
my part.

What I'm referring to specifically is the wish that their DNS console
allowed us to specify an A record using the EC2 instance id. Bounce the
instance and the public IP address will change... and if their DNS system
was keyed to the instance id it could change the DNS serial number and A
record so the change is propagated. Right now you have to update the record
yourself. It's not really an issue with enterprise users since they'll
already have some layers of indirection but small guys typically won't.

At least the internal IP addresses are stable. If I have a nginx frontend I
can bounce the backend servers without any issues since they should be
communicating over the internal network and those addresses don't change.
I'm only hosed if the frontend gets bounced and I don't notice it.


On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 7:58 AM ghe <ghe at slsware.net> wrote:

> On 7/7/19 8:48 PM, Jed S. Baer wrote:
>
> >  - NameCheap
> >  - Gandi
> >  - CheapDomain
> >
> > Any thoughts or other recommendations?
>
> I've been with Gandi for quite a while (a decade+). They'll do email and
> DNS for their customers, if you want them to. So I'm told -- I've never
> asked them to, but I've seen friends using their DNS.
>
> And their tech support is very good.
>
> They're not the cheapest, but they're the best I know of, at least for
> the small fish like you and me :-)
>
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