On 7/13/19, Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> wrote:
recommendations for other free or cheap DNS providers, I'd like to hear them.
I prefer to have my domain WHOIS on one provider, my DNS with another provider, and then to run the server myself.
Many registrars throw in DNS service for free. Free DNS services independant from registrar are harder to find but do still exist, try a web search. cpunks.org registrar is currently namecheap under PIR, with its NS pointing out to friendly nameservers for its SOA.
whether for DNS, or HTTPS.
There are tons of features in Cloudflare, even at the free service level
Other related features, like Javascript-based captchas, are options on top of the CDN
Supposedly those can be disabled or made much less aggressive or more friendly, while still utilizing CDN cache / anti-DoS
The only reason I might consider turning it on temporarily in the future is if there is a DDoS against the server. Cloudflare has some great capabilities for intercepting attack traffic.
Sure, try keeping the Cloudflare account active in case you need to quickly point there for a while to defeat a DoS attack.
I2P or Tor instructions are out there.
Know that you can still get scraped and TCP games through those. Though at least tor has onion auth keys you can post to the list now and then that will block all access to non subscribers. robots.txt can be useful, yet easy to defeat. There's also .htaccess at the webserver level. And a mailman access at that level. Unfortunately the latter two will prevent the list from being picked up by search engines.
johncompanies.com
Still going.
Oracle ... DynDNS
Oracle loves to unfree things... Solaris, ZFS, etc. DynDNS started selling itself around 2002. RedHat just bought by IBM. Takes a lot of structure forethought to be able to uphold promises of free models for long term.