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Moving external DNS server to VPS (lemmy.fdr8.us)

submitted 1 year ago by dan@lemmy.fdr8.us to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world

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I plan to move an external DNS server to a hosted VPS in the near future. I would appreciate advice on VPS specs for this purpose, or an other helpful feedback from others who have done this before. I've used a lot of low end boxes to host web services, and would like to do that with this project as well but don't want to under spec it. It will be used regularly by around 300 users.

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[–] infrainsight@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How heavy is the DNS used for changes (records added/removed)? Do you have DNSSEC active? Does the DNS server also act as a caching DNS (given that you mention it as an external DNS, I suppose not)? These things can influence the specs of the server.

I would imagine that, for common use cases, low specs are fine, but as this is an external facing DNS server you probably cannot be certain that more interaction won't happen. If too lightweight, a lightweight DDoS might be sufficient to bring it down, which majorly impacts your service. So I wouldn't go below 2core, 4Gb.

But personally, I don't recommend hosting your own DNS. DNS is a brittle service the moment you want to do more than just exposing a single zone, and the complete DNS architecture shouldn't rest on a single service. There are dedicated DNS service providers out there that work very well, and can be programmatically configured (API).