Dyn Managed DNS - A Solid Choice
April 02, 2019
Dyn Managed DNS - A Solid Choice
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
Dyn is one of our external DNS providers, serving DNS queries for our properties to the general internet population.
- Reliable
- "Advanced" DNS Services Available (Load Balanced DNS, Monitoring and Automatic Failover, GeoDNS, etc)
- An API for advanced users and bulk changes
- Reasonably priced
- As a relatively experienced engineer, I find the UI to be incredibly obtuse and counter-intuitive. I try and use the API for most things, but for some people that may not be an option.
- The user documentation is a bit hard to navigate. DNS in general is pretty simple, so this is a minor gripe, but it's hard to find specific info sometimes.
- Dyn supporting our external DNS needs eliminates our need to provide our own external DNS platform, recovering time and money that might have otherwise been spent on hardware and engineering.
- No DNS = no visitors = no revenue, so Dyn's stability greatly contributes to our success as an online marketplace.
We actually use both providers, but Dyn is our primary.
In terms of feature set, both companies have very similar offerings. We've found Verisign's UI and documentation to be overall more usable, but Dyn's GeoDNS management is far simpler. Both companies offer an API, and while Verisign's documentation was a little better, we were able to accomplish more with Dyn's.
Overall, the two providers have near-parity in features, so our decision came largely down to cost and timing.
In terms of feature set, both companies have very similar offerings. We've found Verisign's UI and documentation to be overall more usable, but Dyn's GeoDNS management is far simpler. Both companies offer an API, and while Verisign's documentation was a little better, we were able to accomplish more with Dyn's.
Overall, the two providers have near-parity in features, so our decision came largely down to cost and timing.