Hi folks,
As you may know, BitFolk currently offers free secondary DNS and
backup MX for up to 50 domains as long as you have a VPS.
I've had a couple of customers who have reached or are very near to
the 50 domain limit, and while I don't like to say no, I also don't
really want to be doing this for free for 100s of domains when there
is clearly a market for it as a paid service.
I don't really want to offer paid backup MX service because it would
involve paid for-spam/virus filtering, which is a complicated matter
and I think anyone needing to do that on a big scale should be
either doing it in-house or buying the service from a company that
specialises in that.[1]
I feel secondary DNS is a different matter though.
Looking at the market today:
Typical large domain registrar:
free with purchase of domain
portfast.co.uk:
£10/10 domains/year
gradwell.com:
£24/50 domains/year
£42/100 domains/year
£108/1000 domains/year
(+VAT)
Of course, all of those come with web interfaces to manage the
domains. On the other hand, BitFolk comes with a VPS to manage the
domains. :)
I'm happy to continue to offer the first 50 domains for free (plus
best effort backup MX), but if you had 51, or 100, or 1000 domains,
how much would you be willing to pay?
Cheers,
Andy
[1]
AntibodyMX.net have talked to me about offering a whitelabel
service or possibly some sort of deal for BitFolk customers so
if their service is something you have any interest in, please
let me know off-list.
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