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  5. DNSimple vs Google Cloud DNS

DNSimple vs Google Cloud DNS

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Overview

DNSimple
DNSimple
Stacks141
Followers121
Votes84
Google Cloud DNS
Google Cloud DNS
Stacks2.4K
Followers572
Votes44

DNSimple vs Google Cloud DNS: What are the differences?

Developers describe DNSimple as "We make DNS simple". DNSimple provides the tools you need to manage your domains. We offer both a carefully crafted web interface for managing your domains and DNS records, as well as an HTTP API with various code libraries and tools Buy, connect, operate!. On the other hand, Google Cloud DNS is detailed as "Reliable, resilient, low-latency DNS serving from Google’s worldwide network of Anycast DNS servers". Use Google's infrastructure for production quality, high volume DNS serving. Your users will have reliable, low-latency access to Google's infrastructure from anywhere in the world using our network of Anycast name servers.

DNSimple and Google Cloud DNS can be categorized as "DNS Management" tools.

"Simplified dns" is the top reason why over 25 developers like DNSimple, while over 6 developers mention "Backed by Google" as the leading cause for choosing Google Cloud DNS.

According to the StackShare community, DNSimple has a broader approval, being mentioned in 53 company stacks & 5 developers stacks; compared to Google Cloud DNS, which is listed in 30 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

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Advice on DNSimple, Google Cloud DNS

Eric
Eric

Service Engineer at Zix Corporation

Aug 5, 2020

Needs adviceonAmazon Route 53Amazon Route 53

We are looking for advice / best-practices / caveats about migrating off BIND on to Unbound https://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/unbound/about/ for internal & external (customer-facing) DNS. Is unbound suitable for this, or is it only recommended for caching? How easy or difficult is it to move 10000's of existing BIND DNS zone entries? We already use Amazon Route 53 for our AWS instances and Cloud DNS for our GCP ones, but would like to maintain internal DNS for cost, control, and latency reasons.

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Detailed Comparison

DNSimple
DNSimple
Google Cloud DNS
Google Cloud DNS

DNSimple provides the tools you need to manage your domains. We offer both a carefully crafted web interface for managing your domains and DNS records, as well as an HTTP API with various code libraries and tools. Buy, connect, operate!

Use Google's infrastructure for production quality, high volume DNS serving. Your users will have reliable, low-latency access to Google's infrastructure from anywhere in the world using our network of Anycast name servers.

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High performance, reliable DNS service;Easy to use, customizable to your needs;Manage records for all your services
Statistics
Stacks
141
Stacks
2.4K
Followers
121
Followers
572
Votes
84
Votes
44
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 26
    Simplified dns
  • 21
    Not GoDaddy
  • 14
    Powerful
  • 9
    Good pricing
  • 9
    RESTful API
Pros
  • 9
    Backed by Google
  • 7
    High-availability
  • 6
    Reliable
  • 5
    High volume
  • 5
    Anycast DNS servers
Cons
  • 4
    Lack of privacy
  • 2
    Backed by Google

What are some alternatives to DNSimple, Google Cloud DNS?

Amazon Route 53

Amazon Route 53

Amazon Route 53 is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating human readable names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each other. Route 53 effectively connects user requests to infrastructure running in Amazon Web Services (AWS) – such as an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance, an Amazon Elastic Load Balancer, or an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket – and can also be used to route users to infrastructure outside of AWS.

Dyn

Dyn

An all-in-one Managed DNS service for your registered domain names. Dyn DNS is the perfect solution for your domain name’s DNS needs, whether it is for personal or business use. It gives you complete control over your DNS zone and its associated DNS records, complete with a simple DNS management web interface.

DNS Made Easy

DNS Made Easy

DNS Made Easy is a subsidiary of Tiggee LLC, and is a world leader in providing global IP Anycast enterprise DNS services. DNS Made Easy is currently ranked the fastest provider for 8 consecutive months and the most reliable provider.

NS1

NS1

NS1’s intelligent DNS & traffic management platform, with its data driven architecture and unique Filter Chain routing engine, is purpose-built for the most demanding, mission-critical applications on the Internet.

CoreDNS

CoreDNS

CoreDNS is a DNS server. It is written in Go. It can be used in a multitude of environments because of its flexibility

nextdns

nextdns

Cloud-based private DNS service that gives you full control over what is allowed and what is blocked on the Internet. Think of it as a combination of Cloudflare DNS and Pi-hole®.

InboxKit

InboxKit

InboxKit automates your entire cold email infrastructure. Buy domains, provision Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 mailboxes, configure DNS, and export to 16+ sequencers — all from one dashboard. Scale from 10 to 10,000 mailboxes without the manual setup headache.

Modern DDoS Protection & Edge Security Platform

Modern DDoS Protection & Edge Security Platform

Protect and accelerate your apps with Trafficmind’s global edge — DDoS defense, WAF, API security, CDN/DNS, 99.99% uptime and 24/7 expert team.

BIND9

BIND9

It is a versatile name server software. It has evolved to be a very flexible, full-featured DNS system. Whatever your application is, it probably has the required features.

PowerDNS

PowerDNS

It features a large number of different backends ranging from simple BIND style zonefiles to relational databases and load balancing/failover algorithms. A DNS recursor is provided as a separate program.

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