DNS - am I taking crazy pills?

scottalanmiller

@frodooftheshire said in DNS - am I taking crazy pills?:

Curious who you guys like to use for web hosting and registar duties?

Registrar I use GoDaddy and Register.com. Register only because they handle Colombia and GoDaddy does not. But GD for most registrations.

For web hosting @NTG owns Hostadillo, so we use them of course We built Hostadillo because we weren't satisfied with what anyone else was offering that we could find. We had been on ASO but the cost was too high and the performance too long. And anything with a "panel" was way too cumbersome to use, took too much time to manage when we could pay for our infrastructure out of the labour savings of having access to the command line.

scottalanmiller

When it is time to renew sites, you can move to CloudFlare for about half of the cost of GoDaddy. But you can't register there the first time.

jmoore

I use Enom and Cloudflare

Curtis

@scottalanmiller said in DNS - am I taking crazy pills?:

When it is time to renew sites, you can move to CloudFlare for about half of the cost of GoDaddy. But you can't register there the first time.

Also, you HAVE to use them for DNS. No way to change the nameservers at all (as of this posting anyways)

scottalanmiller

@Curtis said in DNS - am I taking crazy pills?:

@scottalanmiller said in DNS - am I taking crazy pills?:

When it is time to renew sites, you can move to CloudFlare for about half of the cost of GoDaddy. But you can't register there the first time.

Also, you HAVE to use them for DNS. No way to change the nameservers at all (as of this posting anyways)

that's correct IF you move your registrar to CloudFlare, your DNS is stuck with them until you switch registrars. A good reason to consider not using them for that. But the price is great.

JasGot

In keeping with the thoughts about who allows you to use other name servers, we have been using DirectNic as our registrar for many years. Make sure to give them a look. The can register about any name you can think of including Columbia allow you to create your own custom name servers, and allow you to point to any name server you wish. This all means ultimate flexibility for us.