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driverdan on Sept 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

With API controllable services like CloudFlare (free) and Route 53 (cheap) why would you want the headache of running your own server?

zrail on Sept 10, 2012 [–]

Mostly for the knowledge that only comes from doing it myself. I looked into using Route53 but I would have had to build something for my dynamic DNS anyway.

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