Need a managed DNS provider for certain uses with unmetered queries, strong DDoS resistance, low latency, GeoDNS and active health checks for servers in DNS round robin.
cloudflare.com/load-balancing is probably best other than being metered.
Would pay $25-50/month but not unbounded.
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Unlimited, unmetered bandwidth is a major main reason we use OVH VPS, dedicated servers and Public Cloud for most things. Unfortunately, they don't have a serious DNS offering. If they had a nice DNS service as part of Public Cloud, we wouldn't need to consider anything else.
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dnsimple.com/dns-hosting is unmetered but they don't have a lot of locations so latency isn't great (dnsperf.com) and I doubt they offer the kind of managed health checks we want for round-robin DNS or they'd be advertising it prominently like Cloudflare and others.
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I know what kind of DDoS resistance I'm getting from Cloudflare, Google or OVH but I have no clue how well anything else is going to hold up.
Why doesn't Cloudflare have a monthly plan for DNS load balancing with unlimited queries? We can't use metered services due to attacks.
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I don't necessarily mean DDoS attacks but simply malicious people creating huge costs. I think it's unlikely that kind of thing would be detected as an attack especially if we're only using DNS load balancing without Cloudflare as a reverse proxy. It'd mostly just be UDP DNS.
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Our main use case is having regional update servers for releases.grapheneos.org. If necessary, we could host our own DNS for the subdomain.
Cloudflare's DNS load balancing looks awesome (weighting, health checks, steering) but metered services are too much of a liability for us.
If we had a metered DNS service, I just don't see how we could avoid malicious people draining our money through making DNS queries. DNS is primarily UDP so they don't even need to establish connections.
Cloudflare's rate is cheap for legitimate use, but that's not my concern.