[cobalt-users] DNS Opinion

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Long time reader, first time poster  so here goes.

I'm trying to figure out the best solution for DNS for my needs.  I have a 
RaQ3i at a remote location where I lease racking services and 
bandwidth.  On the one machine I plan to host up to 200 sites and so I've 
got a deal with a registrar for bulk discounts on domain names.  I've tried 
a few different approaches to DNS management with varying degrees of 
satisfaction/success, whichever I choose I want to commit to for at least a 
year.  I'm trying to keep my overhead low so buying another machine to act 
as the DNS server is not feasible at this point.

I'm curious to find what others in  similar situations are doing.  Neither 
the rackers nor the registrars seem to be able to handle DNS that don't 
point to their own machines.  I've looked at DNS management services but 
they charge around $25-50 per DNS per year.  I've also looked at The Public 
DNS service (soa.granitecanyon.com) but there seems to be an ethical 
question about using this service for commercial sites.

Is it worth setting up the DNS service on my RaQ considering the use it's 
going to get full of (small) web sites?  Any other solutions out there? 
Your feedback is important to me so any response no matter how depressing 
will be read and well considered.

Thanks in advance,
Howard