23 Feb
2012
23 Feb
'12
9:49 p.m.
Sorry to have taken a while to reply to this.
On 11/02/2012 20:58, Andy Smith wrote:
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I appreciate that for a lot of people with a large number of domains
the question may still be, "why would I pay BitFolk when there are
companies out there that will provide secondary DNS for free?"²
Having been using one of those companies, that is one reason for me
migrating my secondary DNS to Bitfolk - basically a lack of maintenance
by the free company resulted in two of their three nameservers resolving
incorrectly (no gave NXDOMAIN and the other returned a stale zone record
despite several increments to the serial).
what I'm trying to do is provide some nameservers
for
people who don't have them, and monitoring to go with it that is as
comprehensive as possible. If that's not of interest then no
worries.
Also, I know that when it comes to paying, there are companies that
will sell you DNS hosting, and their infrastructure will be a lot
bigger and more resilient than BitFolk's. That's also OK - maybe one
day I can compete with them on that score, but right now I am still
trying to cater to the hobbyist and small business and hope to come
in at a lower price than these services.
Personally your setup seems to be good enough for me and for my client's
needs. With the monitoring you provide at least we can see when there
is an issue - the free DNS provider I was using cost me a client since I
didn't twig it was a DNS issue for a few days and their IT support guy
persuaded the clients to move the DNS and then the domains over to him.
But if you or anyone else does have interest in
putting more than 50
domains on BitFolk's servers, what sort of pricing and other things
would you like to see?
As far as pricing goes, OK let's start. What about first 50 domains
per VPS for free (as it is now), then every block of 50 domains
after that is £0.99+VAT per month or £9.99+VAT per year?
And I make the add/remove/disable/enable thing work first.
I would certainly pay for this, particularly to be able add and remove
domains without needing to bother you (but I've had no complaints about
how quickly you've responded to my requests).
Gavin