Yeah, they are great guys to deal with, no doubt. I guess one thing I should clarify was that we couldn't justify it at our current (then) levels.
We were sitting with about 20,000 domains on the system, I told them we'd revisit the issue when we had 200,000. -mark On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Joseph McDonald wrote: > > MJ> We've evaluated powerDNS, and it is a good product, but their pricing > MJ> model didn't fit with ours. At the end of the day we couldn't justify > MJ> it. > > I am not familiar with PowerDNS's pricing model, but we tested it > fairly extensively with large zones (millions of records) and many > zones (millions of zones) and it just plain rocked. It blew BIND out > of the water. The developers were very accessible and amenable to any > changes we required. The architecture was flexible (plug in all sorts > of different backends: mysql/berkeleyDB/LDAP/etc... In the end, we did > not land the contract for the project which would need such scale, but > if we ever have such a need in the future, we will be using PowerDNS. > > thanks, > -joe > -- mark jeftovic http://www.easydns.com http://mark.jeftovic.net
