Migrate DNS to Google Cloud DNS
GCPHere's a quick post about my migration of DNS to Google Cloud Platform. As it's say in the Google Cloud documentation, DNS are so important that it's the only service that has a 100% SLA. The migration is very easy.
Context #
Here's some context, I'm talking about the DNS of this blog, this is just a little side project with some tests subdomains. Just a sandbox. Not a big website with huge traffic.
But, why migrate the DNS to Google Cloud? #
OK, it's not that usefull to me. It's not about performance or some low latency, which is true, but it's a convinient way to do some testing and prototyping. As I play often with Google Cloud services as seen in my blog post, it's a easy way to setup some domaine name. I have everything in the same place, I can setup a new subdomaine, no propagation, it's fast, all in the same place.
What about the price? #
The pricing documentation is simple. There is a price per zone, and a price per million/months of request. The good part is a zone is a domain, no matter how many sub domaine on it. That mean if you have test.domain.com, test2.domain.com and so on, this count as one zone. The price is $0.20 per zone and per domain. That's not a lot! About the request price, well, I have not such traffic, let's be honest, it's gonna cost me nothing.
That's mean I have migrate nsirap.com DNS for... $0.20 a month, just to get a simple way to play with my DNS. Not that expensive.
Let's do the setup #
DNS can be found under Networking > Network Service > Cloud DNS.
You might need to activate the DNS Google Cloud API.
You'll need to create a zone.
Once the setup done, you'll need to update your DNS Server from you registrar, and that's it, you're done.
Conclusion #
Unexpensive, easy to setup. All in one place. Why not then!
UPDATE: I'm not using this very often, but when I need it it's nice to have it on the same platform, but it's still few penny every month, that could had up with other few pennies not so usefull servicies.