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02-13-2012, 03:27 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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DNS VPS
Looking for two providers than can offer "premium" vps to be used for DNS. Looking for a west cost and east cost option for under $15/month each.
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02-13-2012, 03:37 PM #2Junior Guru
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Hello-
DNS Servers are very lightweight- your budget does not have to be so vast. A $5 VPS will work fine for your needs. Good luck with your hunt.
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02-13-2012, 03:38 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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02-13-2012, 03:42 PM #4Junior Guru
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Hello Zach-
Thank you for your reply. There is a difference between oversubscribing and overloading, as long as the host has monitoring and technicians on-site 24x7, I do not believe you will witness any issues.
In any case, a budget VPS will suite your needs for a DNS server, as they are very lightweight and do not require much resources.
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DNS servers should be regarded as mission-critical infrastructure. Do NOT underestimate the importance of using a good and reliable provider. If you DNS servers go down your domains are useless.
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02-13-2012, 03:54 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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Price is really irrelevant, BuyVM achieves over 200MB/s disk IO speed according to the reviews I read online which is probably much better than the typical "premium" vps provider out there. Did I mention they sell their VPS at $15/year as well?
You can't form a final judgment by price and automatically assume that one's service is going to be horrible just because their prices are low.
I hope this helped.
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02-13-2012, 04:04 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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In my opinion you can. A cheaper price will attract customers who want to pay that cheaper price. Those cheaper customers may be more risky to other customers on the node.
It takes 1 customer to take down a node. When it costs $20 for a vps versus $0.99 for a vps, in my opinion the risk is lower.
[edit] And I never assumed any services are horrible, I just want one that is more of a premium provider than a budget one.
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02-13-2012, 04:08 PM #9Junior Guru
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02-13-2012, 04:11 PM #10Web Hosting Master
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What do cars have to do with web hosting? The analogy does not correlate at all.
Cheaper prices may attract more riskier customers because it is less money, it's very common in this industry that cheaper prices attract more fraud. Fraud can cause issues on nodes -- I don't want to deal with this possibility.
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02-13-2012, 04:12 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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Also, regardless of wether or not cheaper servers can be used for DNS, my OP asked for a premium provider such as linode or 6sync for around or under $15/month. I didn't ask for budget VPS, nor do I want to be told "budget is okay blah blah", I've made the decision I want a more premium service. I didn't ask for advice this time
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02-13-2012, 07:58 PM #12
Zach, you could do a lot worse than look at BurstNET's premium VPS range. I understand exactly where you're coming from asking for "non-budget" providers. Burst's premium range give you more CPU share and a lot less containers per node. I suggest them to anyone asking me to set up a cluster for them because they don't attract what you're trying to avoid
The advantage that I see is that you're then with a long established company with a decent network and a choice of 4 locations.
The first plan is $14.95 and I know from experience that it works well for what you're looking for... https://www.burst.net/premiumvps.shtml (You've also got some space and extra bandwidth you could use for backups or something).
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02-16-2012, 04:42 AM #13Junior Guru Wannabe
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I've been with Linode for about 2yrs and I totally recommened them. I've also had a VPS from Allsimple.net for a month and so far no problems at all. I use them all as a DNS server.
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02-16-2012, 05:14 AM #14Web Hosting Master
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You could get like 3 of $5/month servers instead of 1 of $15/month server (or more). Even if the previous is a budget, the reliability of all 3 combined HAS to be better than a single premium one... at least I hope they are.
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If you're doing master -> slaves and hosting all dns on vps's, then the reliability of your master is important. If the master is down you probably can't do updates/additions. If the master is down for a long time then there's a risk that dns on slaves will expire.
I'd suggest choosing a very solid provider with an established history for the master. Slaves are less critical, but you still want a good provider with decent uptime and some assurance that they're not going to disappear next week....
A big attraction for the abusive crowd is high resources for low price. Stay away from providers that seem to specialize in that.
On the other hand, there are many good options, from quality providers, for low-resource servers (like 128mb or less) in the $5 range. These are great for DNS servers.
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02-16-2012, 10:10 PM #16Aspiring Evangelist
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Price does not mean quality and certainly will not save you from a bad customer.
I had a person wishing to pay hundreds for a server if I would issue him an account. After a few ticket responses it became quite obvious he was looking for a chump to get him a server to spam the net.
Just because someone is willing to pay more does not make them less of a risk and just because someone is charging less does not make them inferior at all.
Look at HostGator they have one of the largest hosting companies in the world and yet they charge low rates.
Anyone can hang out a shingle advertising a higher price then anyone else out there that does not mean the have anything better to offer than anyone else.
I had a customer talking with me yesterday about a person they know wanting to sign up. While we were talking he tells me that the guy his friend is using is charging them $200 a month for what was described as a few pages being hosted. And his friend is running an electrical company so you know there is no heavy dynamic pages being served or massive traffic either. Needless to say this person is getting $200 a month for it.
They could easily find a large number of hosts that would do the same thing for a fraction of the cost.
Regardless of price you have to use a set standard for evaluating each company. I have seen companies that had great prices but because of their record I would not use them.
I would look for time in business for one.
Reputation: If they have any bad reviews see what they are saying.
Do they have a phone you can call for support. [You have to watch out for this some have phones but their staff only knows how to say please submit a ticket.]
Do they have online chat and or forums. I like forums but some large companies have none and some have the forum but nobody uses them. Like me everyone usually just shoots a ticket in or calls. I get torn on whether these are practical to have. I have also seen more than one host that scrubbed their forums anytime someone posted something even remotely negative. Easy to have positive posts when you delete the ones you don't like.
Check their TOS over and over for hidden clauses and fees.
Name.com for instance will bill you $25 if you forget your password and try to login too many times. Just a note I never had this happen but I have some domains with them and tripped over that in their security settings. Imagine that a company charging you extra to unblock your account so you can use it.
They tell you to use geographically located DNS servers on different networks for a reason. That is so that you don't have to worry about failures. I am sure everyone already knew that.
Whether you're talking primary or secondary just make sure you have however many you think you need to maintain the uptime you desire. Surely if you have three or more DNS servers setup they most likely all will never go down at the same time.
And if you do notice one go down just setup another one quickly and promote the secondary to primary for the domains then setup the new DNS as backup.
I would hope surely that if you had a DNS server melt down that you could setup a new DNS and add the zone files from the backup to the new DNS and change the records at the registrars site.██ Cut Above Host Click Here To Visit
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