🚀 Some suggestions

[obeho]

@ookangzheng

1. Do you have TLSA records for your DNS endpoints?
2. You might want to look at The edns-tcp-keepalive EDNS0, as outlined by RFC 7828, and its implementation in BlahDNS.
3. In the comment you mentioned that TLS1.3 is supported. But are TLS 1.0 and 1.1 deprecated? If not, support for these two versions should be dropped.
4. And, I assume this is already implemented?
5. Also, please drop the DNS ANY meta-query type. (link)
6. TCP Fast Open, as outlined by RFC 7413, for the resolver.
7. For the website, Shiting to privacy-friendly analytics like umami or GoatCounter, both free, or self-hosted solutions like Plausible or Fathom Lite or Matomo On-Premise, reducing the loading time.

[zoonderkins]

1. Not at this moment. (Registrar Namecheap not support)
2. Not possible (EDNS0)
3. Will investigate once I have free time
4. Already implement
5. Already implement
6. Already implement
7. Will investigate once I have free time

[obeho]

This could be a non-starter, but is it a good idea to have U.S.-based hosting providers such as the famed Choopa LLC (Japan, Singapore server), and the controversial Green Floid LLC (Switzerland server) serving BlahDNS users' DNS queries?

[zoonderkins]

How about switch following Cloud provider:

• Choopa LLC --> Linode,
• Green Floid LLC --> Swiss-VPS Pty Ltd

[obeho]

Thanks for the consideration.

Linode is U.S.-based, and Swiss-VPS Pty Ltd looks like all bark no bite. So, I'm looking at others.

I'm actually curious, why would you put a server in Switzerland if you already have one in the neighbour Germany?

I'd assume one would place them geographically spread out. So ideally in somewhere in Portugal/Spain or even Iceland would be better, consistent with your location plan.

[zoonderkins]

The main consideration is I want to use Switzerland as a hub, part of my self-hosted VPN.
Also, I do have Web, mail server in Singapore and Japan which hosted on Choopa LLC.

Somehow I agreed with your point of view that ideally get a server in Portugal (Italy), India, and Iceland (Norway) will be a good choice.

Somehow I would like to give a user choice to choose something like low latency or region based (privacy-friendly region).

[obeho]

The main consideration is I want to use Switzerland as a hub, part of my self-hosted VPN.

Now I understand. If I may, why did you choose Switzerland as the hub place?

So, now that its obvious a server is going to be permanent in Switzerland, I would like to suggest eqipe for Switzerland, and Bahnhof (this is the ultimate privacy hosting provider), Greenhost, Njalla, 1984 for other regions. OpenBSD Amsterdam might be useful to you.

If any pricing issue or any feature missing from the above ones, I can search for more hosting providers.

[zoonderkins]

@obeho Any alternative to Vultr or Linode for Asia server?

I will move Switzerland server to Swiss-VPS Pty Ltd around March or April.

Because I need to calc how much budget that I can spend on public instance. Also, donation isn't enough to cover most of the cost, but I do enjoy the entire journey and huge thanks for supporters.

For Netherland server: www.leaseweb.com | openbsd.amsterdam | greenhost.net
Iceland server: flokinet.is | www.1984hosting.com

[obeho]

Asia is very tricky :) Its gonna be real difficult to find a privacy-focused service. Imma jump right into it. But I think you can put down around 20$ (which is pretty much the standard) +/- 10$ (for padding). By the way, Seoul is an interesting place to host a server (offered by Vultr).

For Netherland server: www.leaseweb.com | openbsd.amsterdam | greenhost.net
Iceland server: flokinet.is | www.1984hosting.com

Are you considering these?

I do enjoy the entire journey and huge thanks for supporters.

I'm sure users are grateful for the service they are getting and the efforts you put in.

[obeho]

While I've been searching for hosting providers I came across Netcup, which will be suitable for BlahDNS Germany I hope. Have a look at it.

[obeho]

@ookangzheng Please have a look at NiceVPS for Switzerland instead of Swiss-VPS Pty Ltd and comment 👍 or 👎

[obeho]

@ookangzheng Another suggestion for Switzerland is Data Center Light and Exoscale. I really don't want to see BlahDNS hosted on Swiss-VPS Pty Ltd.

[obeho]

Finally a viable candidate for Asia, CloudSigma

[zoonderkins]

@ookangzheng Another suggestion for Switzerland is Data Center Light and Exoscale. I really don't want to see BlahDNS hosted on Swiss-VPS Pty Ltd.

BlahDNS hosted on Data center light before, but their control panel functionality too simple for me, some feature is missing, such as Snapshot, VNC.

[zoonderkins]

@ookangzheng Please have a look at NiceVPS for Switzerland instead of Swiss-VPS Pty Ltd and comment 👍 or 👎

Looks like their data center located in England.

[obeho]

In this page it showed locations as Switzerland.

They even have this in their News section.

[zoonderkins]

Final thought will be

Japan + Singapore --> Linode
Amsterdam -> openbsd.amsterdam (Will give it a try)
Switzerland -> WIP
Germany and Finland remain the same (Hetnzer)

I'd not consider leaseweb.com, because they only support business use and I have to do KYC

[obeho]

Germany, Finland, and Netherlands? Europe is getting too much attention 😁.

Switzerland -> WIP

Does this mean the above suggestions are not suitable? Should I search for more alternatives?

[zoonderkins]

Germany, Finland, and Netherlands? Europe is getting too much attention 😁.

Switzerland -> WIP

Does this mean the above suggestions are not suitable? Should I search for more alternatives?

I want to give BSD a try.
Also, due to budget that I can afford, I'm going to continue to look for some provider like nicevps.net, njal.la or openbsd.amsterdam which higher price is okay, but I need more RAM and SSD (4GB, 80 GB SSD) and ipv4, ipv6 located in Europe (Iceland, Amsterdam, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, etc...)
Merge DNS server with Web server and some p2p services.

[obeho]

Another one.

[obeho]

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