Zilore DNS Service Shutting Down on 14th July 2024
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Received this notice on Zilore DNS service shutting down:
The notice of termination of the Zilore DNS service effective from the 14th of July 2024
Please be informed that the Zilore DNS service will be completely discontinued on July 14, 2024. Until 14 July 2024, the service will be provided at no additional charge. Users who have annual tariffs will be recalculated and will be refunded any unused funds.
This decision was very difficult for us, since 2012, we have been providing services to tens of thousands of users around the world, and we have been doing our best to provide a stable, reliable and functional platform. Unfortunately, in the current conditions of low-margin business and the team's focus on other projects, we will not be able to continue to pay proper attention without compromising the quality of the product. Therefore, we have made such a difficult decision, and we sincerely hope for your understanding.
We apologize for wasting your time looking for another solution and transferring data.
You are welcome to use the functionality to export data in BIND format, except for GEO/Failover records (Select domain - Settings - Export).
Zilore Team
www.zilore.com
I hope they don't shutdown their monitoring service.
They have been very reliable and it is definitely sad to see a good service shutting down.
Comments
Ouch!
This is really sad
Of all the DNS services I tried, Zilore was probably the best and the most stable one.
Just received the same mail, I'd be surprised if their ancillary monitoring services won't be affected
for those affected, feel free to migrate to Rage4, once the NS history will be validated you will receive additional 2 months free (3 in total including our free trial period)
Auth DNS and anycast provider Rage4
Did Zilore offer anything that HE.net and/or Cloudflare doesn't?
I totally forgot that I have/had an account there. Just as well I didn't use it, I guess.
It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away.
NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh)
I've been a customer of theirs for years! Definitely the simplest for DNS georouting and failover that I'd found.
So anyway I built my own DNS service to do exactly what I need
- RoachDNS
What are the best alternatives?
Alternatives to Zilore. https://www.g2.com/products/zilore/competitors/alternatives
I can't say which is the best for you.
Filen.io - use this link to signup and we both get extra 10GB free.
https://filen.io/r/4d472d5cdb57f6663621a251065e0b51
https://gcore.com/dns
Extremely nice stuff, API with OctoDNS/DNSControl integration, GeoDNS in Free plan, anycasted with shit ton of locations, unlimited zones, unlimited requests.
Highly recommend giving it a shot, their free plan is extremely generous, I have never had any downtime.
You also get 1TB of bandwidth(per month) on their CDN service, it also has some basic WAF so it could be used as an "alternative" to Cloudflare. If you need SLA, Support, etc their paid plan is like $2/mo.
Only downside for a while was lack of DNSSEC, but they implemented it recently https://gcore.com/docs/dns/getting-started-with-dnssec
I have used it for a while now, nothing bad to say about it, amazing service. Gcore is very large, no "one man show" and risk of downtime or unexpected closure.
Thanks for that.
How would that stack up to Cloudflare, HE.net and/or ZoneEdit? (If you have any experience with any of them.)
Used Cloudflare and HE, and on Free plan its more advanced and feature packed than either of them.
I prefer it over both, If you have no need to use Cloudflare ddos protection, go with Gcore any day.
It has statistics on requests etc and they aren't limited to 6h like on Cloudflare. HE doesn't have any.
Between Gcore and Cloudflare would it be fair to say that the main advantage of Gcore is the longer statistics? Or is it more than that?
That, and you don't contribute to increasing centralization of Web. Next time Cloudflare goes down, you won't be affected
You also are not a part of a NSA honeypot, Gcore is an european company.
I would say the quality is on pair with Cloudflare(very good), I also appreciate first party integration in tools like OctoDNS.