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What do you like best about PowerDNS?

The ease with which you are allowed to create a server login and manage the downloads is pretty good. I’ve loved it from the very first go. It’s pretty neat, and I recommend it to be used by everyone who’s into technology and website management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerDNS?

Honestly, there’s nothing that I dislike about this. It’s smooth and the flawless use makes it more awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

PowerDNS has allowed me to get into the websites’ DNA very easily and quickly. I’ve managed to write in C++ effortlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is PowerDNS?

PowerDNS offers open source DNS software, services, and support.

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PowerDNS offers open source DNS software, services, and support.

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Year Founded
1999
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Nootdorp, nl
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Learn About W.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great Platform"
I like how you can adjust the needs according to your business needs. I appreciate the reviews provided.
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Yiorgos [George] A.
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Yiorgos [George] A.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"A DNS server for hosting your domains"
The fact that it can get input from different sources. I've used it extensively with sqlite but have tested it with other inputs too. MySQL and hi...
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Franco T.
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Franco T.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Years of reliability"
The flexibility and easy of management of MySQL backend. And the reliability: we have used PowerDNS for a number of years to manage our DNS infrast...
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What do you like best about PowerDNS?

I like how you can adjust the needs according to your business needs. I appreciate the reviews provided. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerDNS?

I wish there were more softwares working with this platform. However, there's already quite a few available. What if there were more guidance through g2? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am solving e-commerce problems. I have benefit from one upping my current standards by using this platform and model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PowerDNS?

The flexibility and easy of management of MySQL backend.

And the reliability: we have used PowerDNS for a number of years to manage our DNS infrastructure, and I can't remember any issue due to PowerDNS itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerDNS?

The lacking of some kind of integrated management interface. It's manageable using a number of external tools, but sometimes an integrated web interface would be useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

My company uses PowerDNS to manage DNS for a huge number of domains (in the number of ten of thousands).

PowerDNS allows to do it in a reliable and flexible way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PowerDNS?

Able to handle DNSSEC and integration with WHMCS DNS Manager plugin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerDNS?

Duplicate record - although the resouce record already exist, the same record added again hence giving duplicate record error.

User still able to add new zone without NS records Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PowerDNS:

Try and experience it yourselves. Although it may be a bit hassle to configure it for the firstimer, later on it will become clearer. If want to have DNS service only, no other unneeded services (unneeded services such as email, FTP, filesharing - while webserver and database are required if setting up PowerDNS with database and web-based frontend) then should consider PowerDNS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

At the time was using WHM as DNS manager and was looking for DNSSEC function. DNSSEC was not supported in WHM although using BIND as its back-end. There was a need to have DNSSEC at that time so we've found PowerDNS do have DNSSEC function and able to transfer the signature to slave NS as well. WHM do now support DNSSEC function but incompatible with DNS Clustering. Furthermore, WHM includes all unnecessary stuff and services whereas we just want to have DNS management only. Obviously WHM meant for hosting websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PowerDNS?

1. Open Source

2. It's a Support cluster database.

3. easy to manage like backup n all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerDNS?

It has all the features to manage the DNS Services so no negative points on that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was working in net4 India and where we did successful migration from one PowerDNS to other powerDNS which was super easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PowerDNS?

I like PowerDNS for build my dns service and i use dnsdist integration load balance dns service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerDNS?

I not have dislike powerdns because powerdns good open source Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

load balancing dns Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PowerDNS?

Robust to use and fast response for queries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerDNS?

There is no sync between master and slave on deletion. I wrote custom script to handle this scenario Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

After migrating from Windows DNS server, no delay in response, fast sync Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PowerDNS?

The fact that it can get input from different sources. I've used it extensively with sqlite but have tested it with other inputs too. MySQL and high availability setup was intriguing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerDNS?

Sometimes the REST API is not well understood by me. I needed stuff to be done via the REST API and it was not possible / implemented, although it seemed the functionality was there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I've run internal DNS services with PowerDNS and implemented split-brain setups. It can be the best choice for such environments, especially coupled with unbound and / or dnsdist Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PowerDNS?

It is really straight forward and easy to work with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerDNS?

There isn't anything in particular that I don't like about this product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PowerDNS:

As I already stated, it's easy to use and it's straight forward. Great product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have internal and external infrastructures and we use it for all our DNS servicea Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PowerDNS?

Easy and simple to implement. And scallable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerDNS?

Power admin gui can be more attractive and informative. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PowerDNS:

Always prefer powerdns Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Inhouse recurser for isp Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PowerDNS?

EXcellent chart and bar to analyze in and out DNS and lots of tools and script Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerDNS?

sometimes for finding some special commands we need to spend lots of time and needs more help documents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PowerDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was working in an IPS that sometimes we faced with lots of queries. with the PowerDNS, I found that we have a problem with resolve DNS form client-side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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