DNS stuff
Convex-adjacent question: Anyone have experience/opinion on picking a DNS manager? I am renaming my app with a new .com domain. So, I'm getting another shot at optimally setting up its DNS with Vercel. In the past, I took the super easy dev approach of using Namecheap as both a registrar as well as for DNS management. From some light research, this seems to be a pretty barebones approach. It doesn't enable fast performance globally or significant DDoS protection. I am using Porkbun as a registrar this time. I'm shopping around for a DNS manager like CloudFlare, bunny.net, Quad9, etc.
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Convex, Inc. does things in two buckets: Critical services and noncritical services.
Critical services we use route53. This is definitely the "full battleship" version, but it's great if you're going to want to do things that are sophisticated and tightly interwoven with your AWS infra
for the long tail of random domains (sample projects, etc), we happily use namecheap and their built-in AdvancedDNS
so convex.dev convex.cloud convex.site and a few other internal domains and aliases are in route53, and then probably a dozen+ other random things are just in namecheap
I think if you're using cloudflare for like a traffic and anti-DDOS layer or an accelerator CDN, yeah, might as well let them do your DNS too
go for Cloudflare to get out of box protection and other benefits
you can even utilise there email routing to get a free email id map to your domain
Thanks, Porkbun uses Cloudflare for DNS under the hood. But if I envision using more advanced DNS features one day, I may as well just set up DNS in Cloudflare from the start. Changing DNS providers once live seems stressful!
Go ahead, the Cloudflare dashboard may seem daunting as it's loaded with a lot of options, but feel free to explore them to learn more about their service.
I went through my new DNS process today, thanks Abhishek.
By the way I noticed that Vercel itself has DNS management now. Seems very easy to setup, but doesn't have much features. I don't think it was there earlier this year. I haven't seen much about Vercel DNS on the Internet - maybe it's new