VPS with DNS API
reddit / selfhosted

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Beautiful-Log5632 · 2023-10-26 23:37

Do you know some VPS services that offer decent DNS with API to add
and change DNS entries? Unfortunately most I found myself have no DNS
and the ones who do don't have HTTP API to use it.

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NikStalwart · 2023-10-26 23:55

Uhm, what?

Can you elaborate on what you mean? Do you want a DNS provider with
API (almost everyone serious has that), or do you want a VPS provider
who can let you provision services via API (again, most of the big
pay-per-hour providers will let you do that) or do you want a VPS
provider that *also* offers DNS (Vultr, DigitalOcean, etc) or do you
want to know how to run your own DNS server with a HTTP API?

If the latter, idk, look into CoreDNS. Maybe they have it. I have a
classic BIND instance running and I just SSH over to the box to update
the zonefiles manually.

Or are you asking for 'failover IP' functionality?

You need to be more specific.

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Beautiful-Log5632 · 2023-10-27 00:16

> do you want a VPS provider that also offers DNS (Vultr,
DigitalOcean, etc)

This. VPS provider that offers DNS. But they let you configure DNS
with an API not just in the website.

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NikStalwart · 2023-10-27 00:18

I already mentioned DigitalOcean and Vultr, but also throw Hetzner
into the mix.

But the real question is: why? Why not use a third-party DNS provider
like AWS, Google Cloud DNS, Azure DNS, CloudNS, etc?

Why must it be integrated with your VPS provider?

Sounds like XY Problem to me.

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Beautiful-Log5632 · 2023-10-27 00:45

Just for convenience to manage all in 1 place. I have not done it
before. How do you connect the 3 things together properly (domain
registrar, VPS, DNS)? Do you set the DNS settings with the domain
registrar or DNS provider or both? And how does VPS get aware of it?

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arcadianarcadian · 2023-10-27 09:05

Many of them offer DNS API.

Cloudflare/Hetzner etc.

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denisgomesfranco · 2023-10-31 10:55

Cloudflare and Bunny offer free DNS hosting and APIs to manage it all,
alongside with a GUI.

You really won't find everything under the same provider.