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Self hosted DNS solution (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Maryannus@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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So I have 100+ websites I manage for various clients, and it is a pain for me to login to their hosting or domain registrar accounts to manage their DNS.

Is there a simple solution, where I can turn on my own server that manages DNS? So for every domain I manage, I simply set a DNS once as ns1..com, and from thereon I can just manage their DNS configurations?

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[–] joost00719@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cloud flare offers an api which allows you to manage it yourself without much hassle.

[–] SillyLilBear@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

this is a better solution

[–] Maryannus@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, but I have had issues with clients with Cloudflare in the past. They tend to ban/block websites or traffic on subjective grounds. I am happy to spin off 5 VMs if needed.

The reason I like to self host is because I am kind of sick of these large companies acting like they own us.