Do nameservers matter?
Do nameservers matter?
My domain is currently registered at porkbun, with the nameservers at cloudflare and hosting through codeberg pages. On the cloudflare end I've disabled all the security stuff and proxying is off for all the DNS records, though I still don't like using them (porkbun is horribly buggy, borderline unusable). Is there a better nameserver provider or is it okay to stick with cloudflare?
The name server is just where you’re keeping your DNS records at. By default this is usually where you purchased the domain name from. It really shouldn’t make a difference. I will say that I recently moved my records to cloudflare and man, they update so fast.
Edit: I should mention, the available DNS records provided by different hosts can be different. For instance, Cloudflare does not have the option for URL redirect records.
Yeah, that's also why I switched to cloudflare. Thanks!
To be fair to Cloudflare, url redirects isn't a feature of DNS. That's something a lot of registrar's pack in for free because users want it. It acts like a DNS feature, but is actually a web server that hands out 301 and 302s.
Shouldn't affect the speed it takes to retrieve records too much (a couple ms), but certain nameserver providers may update records faster in the event you change 'em.