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DNS Made Easy – 2022 Preview and 2021 Review

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Top DNS Servers 2022

Use this guide of the top 11 DNS provider servers for 2022 based on speeds, reliability, and overall performance.

Tiggee LLC Announces Acquisition of PerfOps Data Suite

Tiggee, parent company of DNS Made Easy and Constellix announced the acquisition of PerfOps, providing advanced DNS, Multi-Cloud, and Multi-CDN services.

Top 6 DNS Solutions for ECommerce Sites

DNS can help with both website speed and uptime—with the right services and configurations. eCommerce websites - speed tests and DNS solutions.

How to use DNS to Prevent Security Issues

Learn the DNS security measures that prevent DDoS attacks, cache poisoning, and DNS hijacking through enabling DNSSEC and anomaly detection.

DNS Guide to Managing Holiday Traffic Surges

This DNS guide will help you develop a readiness plan that can handle the seasonal traffic rush. Examples and DNS solutions to improve your domains.

SSL/TLS Certificate: What is it and Why You Need One

Learn in this resource about SSL Certificates and why they are important. Walkthrough the steps, pricing and benefits of having an SSL/TLS Certificate

What is Caching?

Learn how to flush your DNS cache in various browsers including, Firefox, Google, Internet Explorer and Safari. Step by step instructional resource.

Why Enable 2FA?

What is Two-factor authentication? (2FA) utilizes an additional form of identity verification on top of the password to help ensure personal information remains secure. Learn benefits and how to enable 2FA.

DDoS Protection and Mitigation with DNS

Learn how DNS can prevent DDoS attacks and mitigate issues with secondary DNS, Failover, and monitoring tools through DNS Made Easy.

DNS PoP Expansion in Paris, France

DNS Made Easy and Constellix announces network expansion in Paris, France. Providing even faster DNS speeds in Europe with ultimate edge connectivity.

What is a VPN?

Learn about the meaning of VPN. What are VPNs and what are the best options? Free VPN examples and protocols. FAQ's what does a VPN do?

What is a DDoS Attack

Learn about DDoS attacks and how they work. See examples and outage history of attacks and Distributed Denial of Service examples.

Akamai Edge DNS Causes Massive Outage 2021

A widespread internet outage has left many top websites inaccessible. Downdetector displayed issues for PlayStation, Fidelity, FedEx, Steam, AT&T, Amazon

What is an MX Record?

Learn about MX records, their meaning, and record examples. Learn how DNS lookup tool can help. TIP: MX records can never point to a CNAME record.

What is a TXT Record?

In this resource learn about Text (TXT) record type. By the end, you’ll know what it is and how it works. You’ll also see examples of TXT record values.

DNS Commands for Windows

Learn DNS Commands for Windows - This resource covers useful commands in Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell with examples and tips.

What is an ANAME Record?

ANAME record is a record that performs like a CNAME record but can be pointed at the root of a domain. Example: A record that’s been morphed into a CNAME.

What is a DNS Server?

What are DNS servers? Learn about different servers and what it means when you see "server not responding". DNS Explained video is a valuable resource.

Fastest DNS Servers: India

What DNS Servers in India are best? Compare speed and performance from leading DNS Providers like DNS Made Easy, AWS Route 53, Akamai, Google, Constellix

What is Time to Live (TTL)

Learn about TTL (time to live) - get examples and TTL values to understand its logic to plan DNS updates through DNS Made Easy.

What is Primary DNS?

What is Primary DNS - it refers to the main authoritative nameserver for a domain. It’s this server that stores the IP address and other important details correlating with a specific website.

What is TLD (Top Level Domain)

Learn about TLD (top level domains) - Hierarchy of domains explained with examples and breakdown of domain structure.

Akamai CDN Outage Halts Flights and Postal Services

On the heels of Fastly’s major outage on June 8, 2021, Akamai, another one of the largest content delivery network (CDN) providers, experienced a massive service disruption today (June 17, 2021).

DNS Made Easy Announces New PoP in Toronto, Ontario Canada

DNS Made Easy expands its network to Toronto, Ontario Canada. This will increase speeds and performance for domains across the globe.

Fastly Slows Down and Causes Global Outage

Fastly Global Outage 2021 - We explain what happened, how it could have been prevented, and what needs to be done in the future to avoid outages.

DNS Made Easy Proves to Have the Fastest DNS

DNS Made Easy is the Fastest DNS provider in 2021 for 11 consecutive months according to Solve DNS with 20 PoP's located strategically around the world.

Prevent Downtime with Secondary DNS

Secondary DNS allows your domain zone file to be backed up automatically and stored on a secondary server. If one provider is unreachable, the other will systematically step in to answer the queries.

Free vs. Paid Authoritative DNS

Find out more about FREE vs paid DNS - pros and cons and learn an overview of what Authoritative DNS is.

Network Solutions and Register Outage 2021

Looking for an alternative to Network Solutions or Register.com DNS. Switch providers and learn more about their repeated outages in 2021.

What are Different Types of Load Balancing

Luckily, there are several different types of load balancing to choose from. Each has its own benefits, but all are effective and affordable. With DNS Failover, Round Robin, Weighted Rounded Robin, or Latency Routing, you can easily decide which solution best fits your organization’s unique needs.

Speed and Infrastructure are Vital to Your DNS

Fastest DNS provider - DNS Made Easy has the best speeds of 2021 according to SolveDNS. 823% faster than AWS Route 53 and 1400% faster than Akamai

Overloaded Azure DNS Servers to Blame For Microsoft Outage

According to Microsoft Azure, its servers received an atypical surge of global DNS queries that were directed at some of the domains hosted on its platform.

DNS Outage Takes Down Microsoft and its Affiliates

Microsoft Experiences 5-Hour Outage on April Fools’ Day 2021. At around 5 p.m EST (2 p.m. PST) on April 1, 2021, Microsoft fell offline, taking Office 365, OneDrive, Xbox Live, Skype, Bing, and its own cloud service Azure down with them. Microsoft 365 posted the following status in response to their users at 5:43 p.m. EST

Round Robin vs. Weighted Round Robin Load Balancing

Basic Round Robin distributes traffic evenly across multiple servers. You can think of it as a rotor that cyclically returns one endpoint at a time. For instance, if you had two or more records (A, AAAA, ANAME, CNAME) with the same name configured to point to different IP addresses, then queries will have a 50/50 chance of being returned by either of the IPs in your configuration.

Free Advanced DevOps Courses

Free Advanced Courses for IT and DevOps professionals. Free Linkedin courses, Coursera classes, and book suggestions.

How to Add a Domain For Managed DNS

This is a step-by-step guide for adding a domain into your account, with and without advanced options. Both methods are simple and quick, and you can always configure advanced DNS options later if you’re not sure what you need right now.

How To Configure DNS Failover in 5 Simple Steps

HOW TO: Configure DNS Failover - 5 simple step-by-step instructions from the best and fastest DNS provider, DNS Made Easy.

Infrastructure and DNS Redundancy is Key to Preventing Outages

In comparison, Dyn has 73 peers and only 25 Gpbs of publicly listed peering capacity (transit capacity is undisclosed). They also have a history of repeated outages, and the 1,053 sites listed in the top million of domains on Alexa that rely on them as a single DNS provider have suffered the consequences. This is why infrastructure is so pivotal. We aren’t saying you shouldn’t use Dyn, but we are saying you shouldn’t rely on them as your sole provider. Every organization should strive for redundancy at every point of failure.

Blaze Tears Through OVH Strasbourg Data Center

Europe’s largest cloud services firm OVHcloud suffered from a massive fire at one of their data centers early Wednesday morning (just before 1 a.m. local time). The Strasbourg data center (SBG2) was destroyed along with part of a second facility.

DNS Made Easy Ranks #1 in Speeds Eight Months in a Row

Fastest DNS provider for 8 consecutive months. DNS service with winning speeds and 100% uptime and elite DNS data and analytics.

Why enterprise DNS is crucial in 2021.

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How To Avoid Downtime With DNS Failover

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DNS Made Easy Plans for the Future as Online Behavior Trends Continue to Evolve

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DNS Made Easy Ranks #1 in Speeds Seven Months in a Row

DNS Made Easy has topped the DNS Speed Comparison Report for January 2021. This report displays the fastest managed DNS services across the world and reports DNS Made Easy as the fastest with 2.19ms

DNS Made Easy and Constellix Announce New PoP in Mumbai, India

DNS Made Easy and Constellix, the industry leaders of global DNS solutions, announced the deployment of their latest point of presence (PoP) in Mumbai, India. This successful deployment of a new PoP in Mumbai will serve the 1.4+ billion citizens of India and the surrounding countries.

DNS: The Super Bowl 2021 MVP

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Best Practices for Onboarding New Employees Remotely

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DNS Made Easy Ranks #1 in Speeds Six Months in a Row

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12 Days of DNS Tips

When choosing your DNS management vendor, choose the one that has the infrastructure and services designed solely for DNS management and nothing else.

DNS Made Easy Ranks #1 in DNS Speeds Five Months in a Row

DNS Speed Comparision ranks DNS Made Easy #1 5 Months in a row according to Solve DNS.

How Cloud Outages Can Be Prevented

Who will be the catalyst in your organization to demand a higher standard from your DNS and cloud providers? Are your services mission critical? When will you insist on 100% uptime?

AWS Suffers Prolonged Outage Ahead of Thanksgiving Holiday

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DNS Made Easy and Constellix Announce Record-Breaking Domain Usage for the Third Quarter of 2020

Domains have seen record-breaking usage in the third quarter of 2020, and 71% of US adults are expected to do more than half of their holiday shopping online.

DNS Made Easy Has Created a 2020 Holiday DNS Checklist for your Network

Several minutes can feel like hours when it comes to lost revenue due to downtime. This is why we created a holiday DNS checklist for you to follow.

DNS Made Easy Ranks Number One in DNS Speeds Four Months in a Row

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Register.com Suffers DNS Outage

Register.com has announced a DNS outage today, October 19, 2020 at 3:38 PM EST, which has affected their DNS customer service base. The outage is still ongoing, and the issue has not been identified or resolved.

ANAME Records in DNS Made Easy vs Constellix

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ANAME Records in DNS Made Easy vs Constellix

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Mail Delivery and Spam Prevention with DNS

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Mail Delivery and Spam Prevention with DNS

The DNS Made Easy company blog covers industry news and educational articles to help you improve your DNS performance.

Put Your Name on Your Nameservers

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Put Your Name on Your Nameservers

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Lower Your Monthly Queries with DNS Analytics

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Lower Your Monthly Queries with DNS Analytics

The DNS Made Easy company blog covers industry news and educational articles to help you improve your DNS performance.

How Does CNAME Flattening Work?

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How Does CNAME Flattening Work?

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DNS Failover or Load Balancing… or both?

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DNS Failover or Load Balancing… or both?

The DNS Made Easy company blog covers industry news and educational articles to help you improve your DNS performance.

How to Redirect from One Domain to Another

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How to Redirect from One Domain to Another

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Change DNS Providers with No Downtime

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Change DNS Providers with No Downtime

The DNS Made Easy company blog covers industry news and educational articles to help you improve your DNS performance.

Query Analytics: the Black Box of Networking

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Query Analytics: the Black Box of Networking

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Why Use a Managed DNS Provider?

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Why Use a Managed DNS Provider?

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Failover: DNS Made Easy vs Constellix

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Ultimate Guide to DNS Analytics

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Year in Review

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Your Favorite Blogs from 2017

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Another month at the top!

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Top 6 DNS Habits Set to Expire by 2018

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