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I've been looking over ultraDNS, and they seem to be ok, the details on thier site talk about a % increase in traffic, citing examples such as freelotto getting a 10% increase. Really they're just talking about getting rid of DNS lookup failures of course, but I'm curious if anyone 'real' has found any return on the time & effort of switching everything over.
Any opinions on this would be great,
As currently I'm sitting on the fence about it.
TIA,
Dw
Cost tends to climb a little steeply, for instance 1m hits would work out at around $340/month, over that they do discounts.
Our DNS server has been a titch tempremental of late, which brought this to the fore, but at the same time adding extra RAM would probably fix the occasional DNS blip.
For the amount of visitors the server gets, a 2% increase would be significant, but there's no real way to check the before and after figures other than trying it.
In all I'm leaning towards getting it, but at the same time it's going to take around 3 days in total for the transfer,setup,etc.
Although most of that is waiting for the DNS update to take effect, it's still going to take around a day in real time explaining it to the relevant people, setting up the service, transferring the service, explaining it a second time ;), and then double checking it all works ok.
With those details,
would you go for it?
Assuming that you do around 1m hits/month, thats costing you half a day, a day (don't know your fee scale) of time, per month. If your DNS server is playing up now, the problem is likely to increase, not decrease, and the time absorbed will likely increase on an expotential scale, not a linear one. Sounds worth it to me
