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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM NS1 Connect

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AIBM NS1 Connect is a managed service for authoritative DNS and traffic steering designed to improve application performance and network resilience.

    $250

    per month

    Oracle Dyn Managed DNS

    Score8.8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Oracle Dyn DNS (domain name system) is an infrastructure-as-a-service that is touted by Oracle Dyne as one of the highest performance global networks existent. It is available as a managed DNS with secondary DNS available for more reliable business continuity on higher service tiers.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM NS1 ConnectOracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Editions & Modules
    IBM NS1 Connect Essentials
    USD 250*
    per month
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    Pricing Offerings
    IBM NS1 ConnectOracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsOptions include IBM NS1 CONNECT FREE DEVELOPER ACCOUNT The IBM® NS1 Connect® free developer account showcases IBM's authoritative DNS capabilities, allowing users to start using it in minutes. Although traffic scale is limited, the full API is available for unlimited usage. It can be used in production as a primary or secondary solution. IBM NS1 CONNECT ESSENTIALS Scaled for growing businesses, the Essentials plan offers features to ensure fast, reliable connections to end-users. Available for purchase on IBM.com or AWS. IBM NS1 CONNECT PREMIUM NS1 Connect Premium is for businesses needing scalable authoritative DNS. Pricing is based on query volume and DNS records. Additional services are also priced through query volume. Enterprise plans offer customizable support and professional services. *(Calculated prices are estimates provided for planning purposes only taking into account potential IBM discounts, and are not a formal offer from IBM or an IBM Business Partner. The estimation may reflect the total discounted price. Certain factors such as configuration, add-ons, or additional requirements will affect final price. IBM Business Partners set and provide their own IBM NS1 Price Estimator pricing, and neither IBM nor IBM Business Partners are bound by the provided estimate.)
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    IBM NS1 ConnectOracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
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    Oracle
    Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Oracle Dyn Managed DNS is not keeping up with the alternatives. We would not select them in today's environment.
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    Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Before dyn we used Bind dns which does not have "smart" services or an API.
    Currently we use Dyn + NS1 in production
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Dyn DNS has a lovely simple zone-transfer / DNS response stack that I trust, very fast propagation and has proven a reliable stack. Dyn is also very cost competitive compared to some of their peers.
    Others we examined had interesting features, but the gap to migrate from a …
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    Best Alternatives
    IBM NS1 ConnectOracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Small Businesses
    Amazon Route 53
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Amazon Route 53
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure DNS
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Azure DNS
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Amazon Route 53
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Amazon Route 53
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM NS1 ConnectOracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    8.5
    (103 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    8.6
    (101 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    8.6
    (99 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM NS1 ConnectOracle Dyn Managed DNS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    IBM NS1 Connect is suitable for businesses requiring high application availability, improved performance, and advanced traffic steering capabilities, especially in complex multi-cloud environments as it ensures maximum uptime. It's less appropriate for smaller teams without DNS expertise or those with basic DNS needs where a simpler, less feature-rich solution might suffice.
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    Oracle
    Oracle managed DNS becomes very heavy when there is an ample amount of DNS being managed. However, the DNS creation and updating takes very less time to propagate and is very easy to use. So, for an organization, where there is a modest amount of DNS to manage, it works very well and gives a splendid experience. So, considering the complexity of managing the DNS for an IT company Oracle Dyn managed DNS is the best option to opt.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Makes for a fast website loading.
    • Enhanced the user interface.
    • Economical cost.
    • It is the best RUL.
    • DNS response time.
    • Routing the base location of the user.
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    Oracle
    • The portal management is very easy to use in comparison to other companies for DNS management.
    • The have expert mode that allows for multiple edits on records and allows you to make notes for each edit on a zone.
    • The have TTLs that are as low as 30 seconds.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • User Experience - Please make it more easy to use for Admins
    • Also add some more details in the reference documents
    • Try if they can offer a monitoring tool
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    Oracle
    • Simpler billing interface
    • More responsive sales team to provide relevant QBRs to ensure proper and best practice use of the product/platform
    • Integration of the Dyn ECT Managed DNS with Dyn Domain Registration would be a nice feature as currently I have to manage two consoles and billing accounts.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    It does exactly what we need, its fast, secure and reliable.
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    Usability
    IBM
    The interface can be better. As of now, it is a bit difficult to manage multiple records at the same time or to test the rules effectively. The data reporting is also not as great as we expect with tools of today’s maturity.
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    Oracle
    This is the only real gripe we have with Dyn; their web-UI can be remarkably painful to use. In the "simple" editor, DNS records are arranged in a kind of "node" view, where each record is a node and any records of the same name or longer (i.e. all records called "record.example.com" or "other.record.example.com") fall under it. This creates an odd sort of hierarchical view that's not really representative of the zone file. The "expert" editor doesn't have an actual delete button, just a checkbox. If you want to update conflicting record types (for example, replacing an A record with a CNAME) you have to check the box for the record being deleted, save changes, create the new record, save changes, and finally publish changes. Dyn uses a publish model for changes, where all changes you make are staged and can be reverted or published all at once. This is fine, except that the publish/revert dialog is in a different page. This is nice when you have many changes, but very annoying when you're changing just one or two records across multiple zones. These are relatively minor issues in an otherwise good platform; annoyances more than deal breakers.
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    The support team at Dyn has always been very helpful and have tried to answer our questions to the best of their knowledge. We have never had any issues from support tickets and they are often resolved in a few hours
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    It's definitely because of automation capabilities and flexibility that it offers. It also offers much more control over how traffic is routed when compared with Google Cloud DNS. The advance features are once again missing in Google Cloud DNS when compared with IBM NS1 Connect. The operational efficiency is also great when compared with its competitors.
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    Oracle
    We use both Oracle Dyn Managed DNS and Amazon Route 53. We like having our main DNS provider outside our cloud provider in case there's an issue with Amazon and we need to point things somewhere else temporarily. But for all the smaller stuff and internal stuff, we use Route 53 successfully.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • The cost was reasonable for a solution that is well known
    • Having hosted DNS saves us money on maintenance
    • Reports give us critical insight into our domains and how often they are used.
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    Oracle
    • For the law firm its being used for, it keeps their remote users working. For law firms, time is money, usually every 15 minutes lost can be a big deal to them.
    • Sometimes it has switched when its not supposed to, and causes downtime. No real way to inform users when the switch is happening, it would be great to have an email alert we can not only send to ourselves but a notification to primary and technical partners in the firm so they don't have to yell at us like something is broken, instead they are aware it had to change.
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