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Re: DNS Services for a registrar
From: Peter Kristolaitis <alter3d () alter3d ca>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 12:29:57 -0400
On 2016-08-12 11:36 AM, Keith Stokes wrote:
If you had 1000 domains, you'd pay $110/month, not $500. The first 25 domains at $0.50/month each, after that it's $0.10. And that's based on the publicly available pricing -- they have special pricing if you're hosting >500 domains.Route53 can get expensive for lots of domains. Queries are cheap with the first 1M free, but if you have 1000 domains you’ll pay $500/month.
Including queries, if each hosted domain had a million queries a month, your total bill would $310.
That's probably a high estimate because it doesn't account for the >500 domain special pricing and your average registrar-hosted domain doesn't get anywhere near 1M queries a month. Your actual bill would probably be significantly less.
If you were to use c4.large instances, it would cost just under $400/month to have 6 instances spread across 2 regions with 3 AZs each, after instances, load balancers and bandwidth. That's assuming you do the discounted 1-year, no-upfront-fee term on the instances.You can build dedicated servers in multiple AZs and data centers able to handle that many domains for far less.
And you're still not as redundant or fast as Route 53, which is anycast from way more than 6 places.
The math gets a little trickier when we start looking at labour costs for both initial development of your platform and ongoing maintenance, but from strictly an infrastructure cost perspective, I don't think the claim that it would cost "far less" to run your own infrastructure is necessarily true for a registrar-doing-hosting scenario.
Current thread:
- DNS Services for a registrar Ryan Finnesey (Aug 11)
- Re: DNS Services for a registrar Jared Mauch (Aug 12)
- Re: DNS Services for a registrar Mark Andrews (Aug 12)
- Re: DNS Services for a registrar Peter Beckman (Aug 12)
- Re: DNS Services for a registrar Mehmet Akcin (Aug 12)
- Re: DNS Services for a registrar John Kinsella (Aug 12)
- Re: DNS Services for a registrar Keith Stokes (Aug 12)
- Re: DNS Services for a registrar Peter Kristolaitis (Aug 12)
- Re: DNS Services for a registrar Keith Stokes (Aug 12)
- Re: DNS Services for a registrar Peter Beckman (Aug 12)
- Re: DNS Services for a registrar Justin Paine via NANOG (Aug 12)
- Re: DNS Services for a registrar Filip Hruska (Aug 12)
- Re: DNS Services for a registrar Justin Paine via NANOG (Aug 12)
- Re: DNS Services for a registrar Jared Mauch (Aug 12)
- Re: DNS Services for a registrar Keith Stokes (Aug 12)
- Re: DNS Services for a registrar DaKnOb (Aug 12)