DNS Made Easy is a paid authoritative DNS service. It is at the top in terms of performance on the DNSPerf website. It was created, as its name indicates, with the purpose of being an easy-to-use service. Since it is not necessary to do performance tests because DNSPerf has already taken care of that, I will only talk about the impressions that this DNS provider has given me in terms of the functions it offers in its Trial version.
Registration
First, the registration process is simple, it is not necessary to add payment information during the trial period. On the left side of the main panel, we can see a table that indicates the limits and number of services that we are using. It is worth mentioning that the changes are not immediately reflected, for example, if I delete a domain in use it will continue to indicate that I am already using it. During the trial period, a yellow box appears below the service usage statistics table indicating when the trial will end.
We can sign up here.
Plans and initial configuration
As with most authoritative DNS services, we can choose whether to use the service as “Managed DNS” or “Secondary DNS”. We will be using the “Managed DNS” option.
Main features according to the plans offered in 2021:
| Free Trial | Business | Corporate |
| 3 domains | 25 domains | 50 domains |
| 1,500 records | 7,500 records | 15,000 records |
| Unlimited requests | 10M requests month | 50M requests month |
| 1 Failover record | 3 Failover records | 10 Failover records |
| 1 GTD domain | 0 GTD domain | 1 GTD domain |
| DNS Statistics | DNS Statistics |
Pay as you go
The “Pay as you go” mode does not exist as such, it is a new service offered by themselves under a new name, called Constellix, with a slightly different architecture and a somewhat cheaper and more accessible pricing scheme.
Highlighted features
Domains with Global Traffic Director (GTD)
This feature in other words routes and returns specific records based on the location of the end users. It is commonly called as GeoDNS.
Available regions
- North America East
- North America West
- Europe
- Pacific - Asia
- Oceania
- South America
Pros
It provides us with DNS routing based on the location of the visitors. The advantage is lower latency if we have servers distributed around the world of our services or applications.
Cons
If our idea is to create a CDN or something similar, DNS Made Easy only allows us to select between regions of the world and there is no granularity such as cities, states, countries, except for the United States, which is divided into two regions. The other disadvantage is that we cannot put more than one record per region, one record means one IP address, for example, we cannot put more than 1 record for South America, and the same for Europe.
Conclusions
Considering that it is number 1, it has a very good price for standard use, but when we need to use special features like GeoDNS it becomes a bit expensive and limited. We can sign up at this link with a free trial period.
