Multiple free dns services redundant as name servers of a website?
Are there problems with setting up multiple DNS hosting services as name servers for a website?
Budget is an issue so I was thinking about setting up two free DNS hosting services as name servers for redundancy. My hosting company allows a maximum of 13 name servers.
As an example, is the below a good solution?
- Primary ns1.everydns.net
- Secondary ns1.afraid.org
- ns2.everydns.net
- ns2.afraid.org
- ns3.everydns.net
- ns3.afraid.org
- ns4.everydns.net
- ns4.afraid.org
- ns5.everydns.net
- ns5.afraid.org
Solution 1:
Yes you could do that, but it would seem to be overkill.
It's much more likely that your hosting server will go down, than all of the top 9 DNS servers you have setup there fall over, at the same time. That is why most domains have 2-3 DNS servers max.
But if your hosting is that resilient, and DNS uptime is that important to you, go for it.
Solution 2:
I would recommend https://www.cloudflare.com/ It's free and has DDoS protection by default too. Plus a lot of extra stuff which you will like.