{"id":2111,"date":"2011-12-26T02:02:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T08:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2012-09-15T01:03:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T06:03:52","slug":"how-to-compare-hosted-dns-providers-with-data-dns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2111","title":{"rendered":"How to Compare Hosted DNS Providers (with Data!) &#8211; DNS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dns.nuvvo.com\/lesson\/11620-how-to-compare-hosted-dns-providers-with-data\">How to Compare Hosted DNS Providers (with Data!) &#8211; DNS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My colleagues &amp; I run a popular website and are constantly concerned with scaling and performance. Until last week, we had been running our own <span class=\"caps\">DNS<\/span> servers (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.isc.org\/software\/bind\"><span class=\"caps\">BIND<\/span><\/a>) on <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/\">Amazon <span class=\"caps\">EC2<\/span><\/a> instances.<\/p>\n<p>We use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pingdom.com\/\">Pingdom<\/a> to monitor many functions of our servers, including <span class=\"caps\">DNS<\/span>. What we saw was a resonable average resolution time of about 130ms, but frequent outliers higher than 500ms! The thought of a half-second penalty to the load time for first time visitors is not appealing. So we started to dig into the problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Compare Hosted DNS Providers (with Data!) &#8211; DNS. My colleagues &amp; I run a popular website and are constantly concerned with scaling and performance. Until last week, we had been running our own DNS servers (BIND) on Amazon &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2111\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[136,834,104],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-dns","tag-hosted-dns","tag-howto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6522,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions\/6522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}