Advantages of Premium DNS Hosting a.k.a Managed DNS
I was looking from upgrading from namecheap free DNS to some other provider which offer Premium DNS Hosting (or Managed DNS). Friend on Reddit recommended me few options like ns1 (which is too costly) but I found The-Online.com Premium DNS plans cheaper with more features. Can anyone tell me benefits and gain if I use premium DNS over free DNS.
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Well, i upgraded few domains from my godaddy and cloudflare free dns account to The-Online.com premium dns hosting 2 years ago. Premium DNS comes with major benefits like secondary DNS, more anycast DNS servers spread out globally which helps users to connect to your sites and apps quickly without routing anywhere, also Premium dns is robust. It comes with better security than free dns. By verifying the visitor is at the intended website, Premium DNS helps shut eavesdropping down. If you are not using premium dns then hackers sit on the DNS server and “listen in” on messages, logins and passwords as customers access your site. So premium DNS is must. Its just cost $4.95/mo at the-online.com and comes with unlimited domains. So you can give it a try!
I’m too using the-online.com premium dns hosting. the most best thing is it’s fully managed dns service and it super cheap if compared to premium dns from namecheap, godaddy, ns1, cloudns, or other providers. Premium dns offers great reliablity to your site and makes sure your site is always available by using the Anycast global network, which provides multiple layers of redundancy. Your DNS records are distributed on servers throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. So, if one server should go down, your website will still be online.
the-online.com premium dns is affordable than amazon aws dns, or other registrars like namecheap, hostinger, ionos, namesilo, etc. Infact free dns from domain registrar is slow. But premium dns from the-online.com is super fast. My connection speed from U.S. west coast to my site hosted on east coast decreased by whopping 150ms when I switched to premium dns from TheOnline. The Premium DNS infrastructure offers faster resolution than the standard infrastructure. And since your information is distributed across DNS servers around the world, customers connect to the closest server location for a quicker response. If you are using any free dns hosting service then you website visitors experience delays or “time outs” trying to reach your site. Customers who live far away may experience a delay in reaching your site or even get a “website not found” error message.
How about cloudflare dns – its free vs the cloudflare pro plan dns? Anyone tried how fast is cloudflare dns if you are on pro or business plans?
I was using cloudflare pro plan that comes with free dns, but could not find any improvment over their free dns hosting. Actually, all cloudflare plans – free, pro, business, enterprise have similar dns features and dns server routing. So no use of paying more there. And just for premium dns why to pay $20 per month!!, just pay $4.95 here at the-online.com get a faster premium dns, plus you can host unlimited zones or domains.