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PowerDNS Authoritative Server

The PowerDNS Authoritative Server is a versatile authoritative server for hosting domain names. It rapidly responds to recursive nameservers, helping hosters offer a high-performing authoritative service for their domain customers. PowerDNS Authoritative Server is flexible and highly scalable to serve individual needs and is the leading DNSSEC implementation used by many of the world's larger domain hosters.

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Market leading DNS record hosting and rapidly answering DNS queries

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S3 Synchronization for LMDB Backends with Lightning Stream

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The leading DNSSEC implementation with support for various databases

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Domain management with graphical interface ZoneControl

Serving DNS Queries Rapidly

PowerDNS Authoritative Server serves DNS queries for domain records by answering requests about their existence and providing respective stored information. It scales to millions of domains per server and is therefore the default choice for very large-scale hosting deployments. On top of this, PowerDNS Authoritative Server includes additional services and features. For example, automated reporting and real-time stats let you keep track of latest trends and geographical load balancing in order to send visitors to the closest servers. Traffic is distributed across all regions at the same time.

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Lightning Stream – S3 Synchronization for LMDB Backends

For PowerDNS customers, the Authoritative Server comes with Lightning Stream, a feature which synchronizes each Authoritative Server's local LMDB DB with all other Authoritative Servers and supports multi-primary architectures. Based on LMDB backends, Lightning Stream provides speed and scalability through enabling one-way or two-way replication for efficient data transfers between authoritative instances in different data centers. In turn, it also eliminates the requirement for complex and expensive hot standby primaries, as well as fragile zone transfers. LMDB with Lightning Stream is the default backend for cloud-native deployments of the Authoritative Server using PowerDNS Cloud Control.

The leading DNSsec Implementation

PowerDNS Authoritative Server is the leading DNSSEC implementation used by many of the world’s largest domain hosters. It provides customers with easy-to-use ‘one click signing’ capabilities and comes with support for all major databases, including but not limited to, LMDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite3, LDAP and plain text files. DNS answers can also be fully scripted for dynamic redirection, spam filtering or real time intervention using a variety of scripting languages such as Lua, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, C and C++.

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Domain Management with ZoneControl

ZoneControl is our graphical web-based interface for managing domains on the authoritative server. It supports bulk-changes, one-click DNSSEC, and all the major features used when managing a large number of domains. It allows for role-based access where the management of the domains can be delegated to specific people or departments, and includes version and history management to reverse changes.

Benefit from Support for Authoritative Deployment and Maintenance

ZoneControl is our graphical web-based interface for managing domains on the authoritative server. It supports bulk-changes, one-click DNSSEC, and all the major features used when managing a large number of domains. It allows for role-based access where the management of the domains can be delegated to specific people or departments, and includes version and history management to reverse changes.

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server in a Nutshell

The PowerDNS Authoritative Server lets providers host domain names and rapidly responds to recursive nameservers. It enables authoritative DNS services from all major databases and is highly scalable to serve individual needs and large hosting deployments. PowerDNS Authoritative Server includes additional services and features, such as automated reporting, real-time stats and geographical load balancing.

The leading DNSSEC implementation used by many of the world’s largest domain hosters comes with a web-based interface to manage domains, perform bulk changes and deliver role-based access. It also offers 24/7 support and deployment assistance from PowerDNS engineers.

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